Fujitsu are a global company worth £58billion and yet they have not paid a single penny in compensation for the life-altering (and for some life-ending) effect their computer programme Horizon had on thousands of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses.

Sunak must make a call to the UK bosses today telling them to pay up or be blacklisted from pitching for new government business.

Since 2013 Fujitsu have won public sector orders worth £3billiion. The UK is a good customer - are they a good company?

Fujitsu are playing a cunning game. As the Times points out, its spokespeople now hide behind a statutory inquiry set up in 2021 and refuse to comment. I don’t know if these dolts have noticed but this is a national scandal which has shocked ordinary people to the core.

Or do they, as business people, think they sit ahead of the rest of us.

It wasn’t so long ago that Fujitsu employees were put forward as star witnesses, assuring courts the system was robust. Their testimonies have now been called into question by one judge and two ex-employees are under police investigation for perjury and perverting the course of justice. This all stinks.

Fujitsu should come clean.