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A Post Office sign in central London, January 12, 2024
THE TUC has accused the Tories of ignoring warnings going back years over the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
The union body said ministers refused to put safeguards in place to prevent future scandals involving publicly awarded contracts when it blocked measures in the Procurement Act last year.
These included making private firms delivering public contracts subject to freedom of information (FOI) requests, the creation of a statutory oversight body and the introduction of a “public interest” test when outsourcing contracts.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
