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Tony Blair says Peter Mandelson reassured him Post Office Horizon IT system was 'reliable' – Chicago Popular
The former Prime Minister gave the order to build the Horizon computer system despite being warned it was ‘increasingly flawed’.
In the years that followed more than 700 postmasters were convicted for thieving from their own tills based on computer data corrupted by dozens of bugs.
Campaigners have blamed the New Labour Prime Minister for failing to halt the project, despite receiving ‘multiple communications’ about its ‘chequered history’.
For Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) said a note from Peter Mandelson (right) gave reassurance that the computer system at the heart of the Post Office IT scandal was reliable. Blair gave the order to build the Horizon computer system despite being warned it was ‘increasingly flawed’
- Tony Blair says Peter Mandelson assured him Post Office’s IT system was reliable
- The former Prime Minister gave the order to build the Horizon computer system
- Later, over 700 postmasters were convicted of thieving due to bug-ridden data
- After criticism, Blair insisted that he was not to blame for the disastrous rollout
