Victims of the Post Office scandal joined MPs in saying Sir Ed Davey had “serious questions to answer” and should consider his position over his role in the fiasco.

The Liberal Democrat leader faced new allegations yesterday that he “fobbed off” victims of one of Britain’s worst miscarriages of justice when he was postal affairs minister between 2010 and 2012.

Davey was told of concerns about the faulty Horizon software which eventually led to hundreds of postmasters being prosecuted over allegations of fraud, theft and false accounting.

Many were bankrupted or jailed and at least four people took their own lives.

Davey has recently expressed regret for “not doing more”, after it emerged that in 2010 he told Alan Bates, the leader of the campaign to get justice for those affected, that a meeting would not “serve any useful purpose”.

He has insisted he was lied to by the Post Office, which assured him there were no errors with the IT system and instead pursued 600 postmasters through the courts — forcing them to pay back cash they did not owe.

TalkTV’s Julia Hartley-Brewer discusses the story with political commentator Sam Armstrong.

She says: “People’s children were spat at at a school… To not want to stop that from happening, to compensate those people and make it better - what sort of person are you?”

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