P&O Ferries’ millionaire boss is facing calls from MPs to resign from his ‘untenable’ position after admitting to MPs that the company ‘chose’ to break the law when it sacked 800 staff without notice last week.
Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite, who is paid 325,000 to run P&O Ferries and lives in a plush Cotswold farmhouse worth more than 1.5million, also told a dramatic joint evidence session in Parliament that he ‘would do it again – and refused to say if he could live on the new workers’ 5.50 hourly wage.
Darren Jones, the Labour chair of the business committee, said following the hearing today that he was ‘amazed’ by Mr Hebblethwaite’s evidence, adding that the chief executive ‘should be fined, struck off and prosecuted’.
His counterpart on the transport committee, Tory MP Huw Merriman, added that Mr Hebblethwaite should ‘consider his position’, telling the BBC’s World At One Programme: ‘It is untenable to come to Parliament to say you have decided to break the law, you have no regrets.’
It came after Mr Jones kicked off the hearing by asking Mr Hebblethwaite: ‘Are you in this mess because you don’t know what you’re doing, or are you just a shameless criminal?’.
‘I’d do it again’: What P&O Ferries’ millionaire boss Peter Hebblethwaite told MPs while giving evidence
Mr Hebblethwaite subsequently issued a public apology to the hundreds of staff, and their families, dropped in the lurch after giving them no notice of their redundancy via Zoom.
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