Between 1999 and 2015 over 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud or false accounting as a result of the Post Office using faulty accounting software. What do you think should now happen to the wrongly convicted sub-postmasters?

Between 1999 and 2015 over 700 sub‑postmasters were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud or false accounting as a result of the Post Office using faulty accounting software. What do you think should now happen to the wrongly convicted sub-postmasters? Published on 9 January 2024 → Survey conducted on 9 January 2024 on 2704 GB adults

All adults

Region

Gender

Politics

Age

Each case should be individually looked at by the courts so they can be cleared

26%

Parliament should pass a law clearing all of the convicted sub-postmasters at once

66%

Neither

Don’t know

Each case should be individually looked at by the courts so they can be cleared

26%

Parliament should pass a law clearing all of the convicted sub-postmasters at once

66%

Neither

Don’t know

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