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candidates are understandably rushing forward to be the toby jones led to be the next toby jones ledive government compensation programs. yes, indeed. compensation programs. yes, indeed . so rishi sunak must now indeed. so rishi sunak must now compensate the infected blood scandal victims politicians demand. so after the prime minister paved the way for hundreds of postmasters wrongly prosecuted by the post office to receive compensation , he has receive compensation, he has been told to roll out compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal. so look, whilst i completely agree, by the way , they the infected blood the way, they the infected blood scandal was a huge story in the 70s and 80s, they have been compensated to directly or their partners have been compensated up to about £100,000. i should say . so. it's like they say. so. it's not like they haven't compensated, but haven't been compensated, but and that and i fully support that compensation as much as i fully support the post office compensation but compensation scheme. also but this is why governments push back. ye

a quarter of a century on, toby jones is playing him in a television drama. >> we are all here to shareeriences. reporter: mr. bates led a campaign to ensure hudgins -- hundreds of sub-postmasters get exonerated, having been wrongly convicted of theft and fraud, some even jailed. now he finds himself the central character in a hit series. >> the last couple of weeks have been absolutely bananas, i think it is fair to say. it is one thing after another. i have not been able to put the phone down. it has been great in some ways. a huge amount of support for the victims in all of this. reporter: at the heart of this scandal is the horizon computer system developed by a japanese company fujitsu. but this is about so much more than a disastrous i.t. scheme. >> it doubled right in front of my eyes. now it says i am 4000 pounds down. reporter: it is about repetition's trashed, savings drained, suicides, allegations of a corporate cover-up, lying, and an absence of accountability. this has been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice of the 21st century. the biggest single serie

, and she's played by toby jones, and she's played by toby jones, and she's played by toby jones, ande real mr bates , about about the real mr bates, he first reported issues with the post office horizon in 2000. he had his contract terminated in 2003. he still has not got his compensation anyway, 20 years later. >> this is mr bates. let's listen to him in the family along the way. >> they need to be assessed as part of this scheme, and it needs to be transparent and it needs to be transparent and it needs to be consistent across the whole board as well, because at present it's not included in at present it's not included in a subpostmasters claim . um, i a subpostmasters claim. um, i mean , i think when i've raised mean, i think when i've raised this in the past, government have said, oh, well, we do we do consider it when we're working it out, but it's not structured, it's not transparent and it needs to be introduced . and as needs to be introduced. and as far as the glow scheme goes, i think it probably only affects maybe a fifth or a sixth of all the claimants. maybe more. but it

so if they got toby jones, if they hadn't got toby jones, if it was louis was like, it was louis and he was like, oh, for the post office. oh, i work for the post office. and they've really, uh, they're really messing with me. and i haven't had the figures don't add then, you know, it's a add up. then, you know, it's a nightmare. well , he went nightmare. yeah, well, he went to for it. we'd all be like to jail for it. we'd all be like that. that more than to jail for it. we'd all be like ticomputer more than to jail for it. we'd all be like ticomputer iwrong. than a computer being wrong. >> shocking is , >> well, the shocking thing is, is that this is not one little guy, one little thing fell guy, one little thing that fell through. there hundreds through. there was hundreds of people. was people. people. and this was going since 1990s. going on since the 1990s. i mean, granted that and i've i've spent a lot of time in post office in this country and the lines are so long. so you know, somebody sub—post office deserves to be punished. not for this , but for, like, getting al this, bu

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alan bates , who responsible, but alan bates, who we see in the in the programme being played by toby jonesright wrote to him the moment he was appointed satellite of a meeting and ed davey replied i didn't think he didn't think that would be useful. >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> and so alan bates then thought, how disappointing . and thought, how disappointing. and then for then , on the next five then for then, on the next five years, years of coalition you've got not just ed davey there, but you've got the two other ministers , vince cable, sir ministers, vince cable, sir vince cable and jo swinson. yes who are responsible for post office oversight. yeah. so it's not sort of. oh, it's a bit of argy bargy. these people were really were responsible . really were responsible. >> that's three liberal democrat leaders at the end of the day. and also mr bates says in his reply to ed davey that he actually found the dismissive way that he was dealt with offensive, offensive. and editor davies trying to say davies basically trying to say this is not a government matter, it's post office matter. bu

by the way, alan bates, alan way, as for alan bates, alan bates, the real alan bates, not toby jones,arlier in the week, and he was asked about this. the ministers and whether they should, you know, they should, know, whether they should, whether his whether ed davey should lose his job. actually, he said no, job. and actually, he said no, he ed davey had he he felt that ed davey had been been in all the ministers have been given a bum steer , i have been given a bum steer, i think was the phrase he used and i thought that is there is a genuine decent person. he's not angry . he i genuine decent person. he's not angry. he i mean, obviously inside he there is a, you know, a horror as to what's happened . a horror as to what's happened. um, but he is, has shown, uh , he um, but he is, has shown, uh, he hasn't overreacted , perhaps in hasn't overreacted, perhaps in the way that i am actually, uh, and i thought there's a really he shouldn't just he should actually him the house of actually put him in the house of lords. would be to have lords. it would be good to have somebody like that i

i mean, it just so incredibly it just sounds so incredibly kind of toby jones, doesn't it?ow. >> no, my postmaster postings, they're local they're quite my local subpostmaster does subpostmaster definitely does does for me. no, but does do it for me. no, but i mean, wasn't wasn't mean, it just wasn't it wasn't sexy. wasn't a big scandal. sexy. it wasn't a big scandal. and it is it's a huge and actually, it is it's a huge scandal. and, you know . yeah, scandal. and, you know. yeah, that's took. that's what it took. >> advertising for itv. >> great advertising for itv. well, a liberal democrat spokesman said ed's heart goes out to the victims of this terrible miscarriage of justice. ed was lied to by the post office on an industrial scale. it is the post office which owes an apology to the victims. ed's focus now is on getting justice and compensation as quickly as possible to all those affected . possible to all those affected. ed still hasn't said sorry after the break. sir keir starmer has proposed supervised toothbrushing in schools . the toothbrushing in schools. the sch

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