Watch tetchy exchanges during Post Office inquiry: ‘I suggest you are lying’

Watch tetchy exchanges during the Post Office Inquiry: 'I suggest you're lying'.Source: PA

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00:00 The post office was fighting the GLO tooth and claw because you all knew that if you lost the

00:06 civil litigation a cascade of criminal appeals would follow, didn't you? I don't recall turning

00:14 my mind to that at the time, no. I suggest you're lying. It's my shorthand of live evidence so it's...

00:22 Why did you need a question mark? It was blindingly obvious. It may have... I...

00:30 It clearly wasn't because I put a question mark. I suggest that this again was part of the cynical

00:36 'can we delay, can we get away with it' mentality. What do you say to that?

00:42 Um...

00:50 I think... and no, I don't know how a square bracket in my notebook

00:56 feeds into a delay tactic. Do you agree that noise is dismissive?

01:04 Um... it didn't mean to be. There was... it's a shorthand email that I think was sent from

01:12 a BlackBerry that tried to summarise what was communication, discussion, generally. I'm...

01:21 It's dismissive, isn't it, in tone? It's just noise.

01:27 Um... I didn't say it's just noise. I just... I don't know what more I can say. That's the

01:37 word I chose to use to...