247:, Staunton said he had been asked by a senior civil service official shortly after his appointment to slow the payout of payments to sub-postmasters affected by the scandal so that the government could "limp into the next election". The next day, Badenoch told Parliament that Staunton had been under "formal investigation" for misconduct.
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