Neil Sachdev, who chairs the state-owned Land Registry, is among a small number of candidates being considered by Kemi Badenoch as the interim chair of the Post Office, Sky News learns.
The chairman of the Land Registry is being considered by ministers as a potential replacement for Henry Staunton, the Post Office chairman who was sacked earlier this year. Sky News has learnt that Neil Sachdev is among a small number of final candidates to become interim chair of the Post Office.
When Sky News approached the Post Office in 2022 about Mr Read's pay demands, it denied he had made any such requests. The governance rows have overshadowed the government's frantic efforts to exert a grip on the wider Post Office scandal. This month, ministers announced unprecedented legislation to quash all convictions in England and Wales arising from the Horizon crisis would be introduced. The bill is expected to pass into law during the summer.
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