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How a Post Office drama galvanised Britain

TV series sparks outrage over miscarriage of justice, forcing politicians to take action in sub-postmaster scandal
‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’ recounts how hundreds of men and women running branches of the service were wrongly accused of theft owing to flaws in an IT system

Two months ago, ITV thought it had found a way to hijack the UK’s national political conversation: pay arch-Brexiter Nigel Farage £1.5mn to appear on the reality show I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here. In the end, that stunt fizzled.

But now, Britain’s second most watched broadcaster has managed to change the political debate through a more unlikely, and cost-effective, route: a drama series about postal service accounting.

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