Make amends, Fujitsu
Daily Mail editorial
Fujitsu should not "expect credit for issuing humble apologies and offering compensation" over the Post Office scandal, said the Daily Mail in its editorial. It has had to be "dragged kicking and screaming to this point", and has finally "confessed having known for years that the Horizon IT system it supplied had faults". "Until Fujitsu makes amends, shouldn't ministers blacklist it from receiving lucrative Government contracts?"
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