NEW: Angela Rayner remains insistent she has done nothing wrong.

In a statement issued this evening she says she would stand down if she had done anything criminal.

She accuses the Conservatives of political games and only reporting her to police for electoral gain.

Alan Bates says he will crowdfund for the private prosecution of former Post Office execs if he has to.

I had the pleasure of meeting him privately on Tuesday and I don’t think anyone would doubt his ability to raise the necessary funds.

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Possibly the most expensive tweet (for taxpayers) that a government minister has ever posted?

Post Office executive warned of wrongful conviction six years before innocent man was cleared, as Daniel Hewitt reports
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This is an extraordinary report by Peter A Smith which appears to show French police - funded by British taxpayers - allowing migrants to board a perilously overcrowded small boat across the channel.

Big part of UK policy has been to engage the French authorities. This report…

Undeterred, unfazed, and uninterrupted: An ITV News investigation found French police watch on as migrants cross Channel illegally, as Peter A Smith reports
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'I'm not going to go into the specifics of what my predecessors did.'

Post Office CEO Nick Read is asked whether top executives lied about their knowledge of flawed IT systems, as he speaks to ITV News' UK Editor Paul Brand

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Disquiet from certain Conservative quarters...

Photo du Jour: Former subpostmaster Alan Bates arrives to give evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry. By Stefan Rousseau/PA

Does the current CEO of the Post Office know whether or not his predecessors lied?

Paula Vennells accused of misleading government after ITV News obtained a letter from March 2015, which shows she claimed there was no evidence sub-postmasters had been wrongfully convicted, ITV News Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt reports

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