By Lars Mucklejohn Tom Hayes, the ex-banker jailed for rate-rigging, has said he was “scapegoated” and compared himself to Post Office campaigner Alan Bates amid growing calls for his appeal to go to the Supreme Court. Hayes, formerly of UBS and Citigroup, told the Daily Mail that would like to meet Bates, the former sub-postmaster who led the campaign to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. “He will understand what it is like to go up against a large institution for many years,” he said. “Whether he wants to meet me is a different matter. He might not, he probably doesn’t.” The Court of…
