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Post Office inquiry live: Paula Vennells denies shielding board from 'dirty laundry' - BBC News Post Office inquiry live: Paula Vennells denies shielding board from 'dirty laundry' - BBC News
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Beer is asking Vennells if she blamed Susan Crichton for the Second Sight review.
Watch inquiry counsel Jason Beer KC grill Paula Vennells about whether she was trying to stop the Post Office board from learning about the executive team's "dirty laundry". "If the project hadn't worked out, as had been originally planned, she had some accountability for that part of it," she says.
You can find our full post on the exchange here. "I didn't blame Susan, that wasn't my style."
Vennells says the board had asked her if Crichton was the right person leading it going forward, adding that she believes she expressed her view that Crichton was.
We're now seeing a file note from August 2013 on reflections Vennells had made following a meeting with Crichton at a Costa Coffee.
"Susan was very, very angry. She yelled at me. She thinks this has damaged her reputation," Beer reads from the file note.
Vennells' reflections mentioned that Crichton had raised that Alice Perkins, the Post Office chairman from 2011 to 2015, had made mistakes.
She said in the file note she'd told Crichton that "we probably all had".
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