Ex-Post Office minister says she felt utter shame over scandal

Kelly Tolhurst, the first former minister to give evidence to the current phase of the Post Office scandal inquiry, has described her "embarrassment" and "utter shame" when a judge found in favour of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of theft and false accounting.Ms Tolhurst was the minister responsible for the Post Office from July 2018 to February 2020.She told the inquiry on Wednesday that the Post Office had…