Rupert Lowe RELENTLESS: Follows the money paid by Post Office victims. Restore Britain’s leader challenges officials over compensation for postmasters caught in the Horizon scandal, where faulty computer records led to false accusations and prosecutions. These are people who run the counters where neighbours collect pensions, pay bills and send parcels. Lowe brings the hearing back to those who hand over their own money to cover supposed shortfalls, sometimes to avoid prosecution. Some are bankrupted. The discussion turns to poor records and the difficulty of establishing how many people need compensation. The Post Office can pursue people for money, yet officials struggle to establish the full scale of the damage afterwards. If money leaves a postmaster’s pocket and enters the Post Office’s accounts, where does it go? He raises the suspicion that it ends up recorded as profit and potentially paid out in executive bonuses. That is his accusation, and he explicitly says he does not know for sure. Carl Creswell, the government official responsible for Post Office policy, explains that records are being obtained when individual victims make claims. He expects the wider question about the money to be examined by the Horizon inquiry. The committee chair backs Lowe’s demand for investigation and raises bringing in forensic accountants if the inquiry does not cover it. Lowe has pushed the conversation from counting claims to tracing payments. There is another choice behind his questioning: who gets trusted to put the damage right? Lowe argues for independent oversight of compensation, drawing on evidence from people affected by several state failures. He also tells the officials before him that they are clearing up decisions they did not personally make. That distinction gives his challenge weight: responsibility for fixing the system cannot disappear into an argument about who originally broke it. This is a concrete reason to back Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain: their leader names the money, the decision and the change he wants. Earlier in the hearing, Creswell points to more than £1.5 billion paid to 12,600 Post Office claimants. Lowe answers with the people those totals cannot bring back. Some victims die before receiving compensation. Creswell calls that a matter of deep regret.