Former subpostmaster and lead campaigner Alan Bates has told MPs that the Government should “get on and pay people” amid continued fall-out from the Horizon IT scandal. Mr Bates told the Business and Trade Committee that the Post Office should be “sold to someone like Amazon for £1” as he described the organisation as a “dead duck” that is “going to be a money pit for the taxpayer in the years to come”. The campaigner led a group of 555 subpostmasters who took the Post Office to the High Court over the scandal, which was settled in December 2019. His story recently became the subject of an ITV drama titled Mr Bates vs The Post Office, starring actor Toby Jones. The Post Office revealed to the committee that it has had another 1,000 claims for financial redress since the series aired last month.