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Properly and legally, reviewing contracts that the government has with p&o and whether they are complying with health and safety requirements with the new crew. >> but there will be those particularly among the 800 that have lost their jobs who wonder why if the government were informed on a wednesday evening of this decision, efforts were not made at the very highest level in government to get in touch with the ferries and tell them not to do this. were any phone calls made by ministers to the p&p&o manageme? >> to my understanding -- obviously i'm not in the department responsible for it. bu...

Measures, is looking into this, it seems that p&o may have dashed p&o may have broken the law. there is a free port status threat being bandied about. to 16 our wages. £2 50 wages. as far as branding is concerned, i think you will get a lot of people going to other ferries, and in the next 2a to 48 hours, ferries, and in the next 24 to 48 hours, ok, iam counting, let's watch what happens. this is very serious. and 15% of freight goes via that, in case some... serious. and 1596 of freight goes via that, in case some...— that, in case some... olivia, what ou that, in case some... olivia, what...

Labour and the tuc are urging the government to publish the legal advice it's received on whether p&0 ferries broke the law when it sacked 800 staff on thursday. in a letter to p80, the business secretary, kwasi kwarteng, said the company appeared to have failed to follow the process for employers making a large number of redundancies. helena wilkinson reports. shouting in dover, shock has turned to anger. this whole situation has ripped the heart out of me, the industry. at the moment, it feels... numb, shock and, to be honest, it feels almost like a bereavement. phil lees has worked on board...

And just after ten, ukraine president, vladimir, zelenskyy will be addressing a tallying. this morning, on sky news -- the government is demanding by 5 pm this evening that p&o explain why they sacked 800 staff and replaced them with cheaper workers. cheaper workers.

Detailed safety inspections. then we expect a package of measures that perhaps you could insist that boats which are in british waters would have to pay the minimum wage to the seafarers on board and that would stop p&o from trying to undercut british star. it is difficult to see how it would work in practice. we would have to see some of the detail. p&0 have argued throughout that the business is not viable, losing £100 million, and if you were to take those claims at face value, thenif to take those claims at face value, then if the government were to say you are going to have to pay your s...