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Badenoch claims SNP 'too lazy' to deal with Horizon scandal

Kemi Badenoch has claimed that SNP ministers are “too lazy” to do their own legislative work as she rejected claims by Humza Yousaf that the UK government was using Scottish postmasters as “political pawns”. Yousaf has demanded Rishi Sunak should reverse his government’s “outrageous” decision not to extend legislation to Scotland to exonerate those wrongly convicted as part of the Post Office Horizon scandal. He claimed he was “utterly furious” that Westminster had agreed the bill - which was originally proposed to cover only England and Wales - should be extended to cover Northern Ireland, but still would not apply to Horizon victims in Scotland. Badenoch, however, noted that Scotland had a different legal system to the rest of Britain. She said: “The SNP want independence but are too lazy to do the work. They have powers to get justice for the postmasters. They should stop whining and get on with it.”

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