TORY leader Kemi Badenoch has blamed civil servants for Horizon IT scandal payout delays. 

The former business secretary claimed today that the government allowed “bureaucracy to get in the way of redress” for wronged subpostmasters.

She told the Horizon IT inquiry that she and ex-postal affairs minister Kevin Hollinrake had “wanted to get the money out there” but were “always given a reason why we couldn’t” by government officials.