The Post Office scandal would have put it in crisis mode, according to the ex-boss

Mark Davies defended the Post Office's bugged software and rubbished evidence of faults. He now heads communications at the Refugee Council, which he said was fake. Post Office boss who said Horizon scandal was fake lands top new job at Refugee Council. Mark Davies, who doggedly defended the software, now heads the council's communications.

Former chief executive David Mills said he had not been made aware of complaints about the defectiveness of the accounting software. He said he did not know of complaints that the software was defective. Post Office said to be in ‘crisis mode’ over Horizon’s software.

Post Office was losing £1m a day, David Mills says. Government would not have accepted ending Horizon software, he says. No one was there on David Mills' first day on his first day at the Post Office, he told the Horizon IT Inquiry. At the time it was losing more than £1million a day.