Speaking on Sky News, Shapps was asked if P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite should go “right now” after sacking 800 workers without notice. Shapps replied: “Yes.”
He added: “My message to P&O is simple; their wheeze is not going to work, we are going to legally require them to go back on it, they might as well start on that now and if they haven’t got the right leadership to do it…then they will probably need to think about sorting that out first.”
He was speaking after Hebblethwaite was grilled by MPs.
