It is frustrating to see yet another article proposing senior executives become more accountable for their actions (“Top executives must be held individually accountable”, Opinion, February 12).
Susan Hawley is of course correct and in quoting the ills of the Post Office identifies an elephant in the room. Those responsible for the shameless behaviour and resulting cover-up at the Post Office clearly on the evidence provided to the inquiry include executives, lawyers and civil servants with ultimate responsibility in the hands of ministers.
To date, no resignations and no prosecutions have occurred, instead a general unwillingness to admit wrongdoing and a lack of recollection about factual matters that exhausts belief.
The tragedy that is being exposed will provide another case study in years to come and will prompt questions like those raised in Hawley’s opinion piece. Things will not have changed.
Hugh Cooper
London SW4, UK
