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Than not that donald trump committed criminal conspiracy. we're going to talk about the p&o ferries controversy now, because the fallout has continued after it sacked hundreds of its british staff, and said they would be replaced immediately with cheaper workers from overseas. they said they would do that by hiring workers from agencies, and pay them less than the minimum wage. now, in a letter to the boss of p&o, the uk transport secretary, grant schapps, called on him to step down. he also said... he wants them to rehire that staff that was fired. if not, he said "i intend to block the outco...

Getting tough with piano and trying to get them to rehire people who got their notice last week. —— is that enough? —— p&o. if their notice last week. -- is that enough? -- p&o._ their notice last week. -- is that enough? -- p&o. if the government are prepared — enough? -- p&o. if the government are prepared to _ enough? -- p&o. if the government are prepared to legislate _ enough? -- p&o. if the government are prepared to legislate now, i enough? -- p&o. if the government are prepared to legislate now, that l are prepared to legislate now, that is the right thing to ensure this cann...

And what could've been before that horrible zoom announcement was made. >> they have come out with a response to that story saying this was an internal government memo, which is standard practice outlined what the officials had been told by p&o shortly before the announcement was made. it was sent to ministers before they were advised of the full details. it's clear from that moment that the immediate priority was to work with unions to ensure workers rights. interesting to hear that from the department of transport on that, saying that actually they didn't know what was going on before that z...

There are substantial delays down at dover this morning. there is an accumulative amount of reasons why that has happened. you have mentioned one of the main ones, p&o, they took their ships out of service more than a fortnight ago and that has really hit capacity on the cross—channel shade dashed the cross—channel shade dashed the cross—channel strait between dover and calais. there are two ships out of service. with so much capacity out of the channel, queues are backing up. here in the uk, there has been an early start to sum for the easter holidays so we are starting to see passenger...

Services running also i have spoken to the fds, who are putting on more services than they might normally, so it is hard to tell exactly what disruption there might be over easter, but otherferry disruption there might be over easter, but other ferry operators are certainly trying to step into the breach, and i have also heard eurotunnel bookings have been busy, beyond what they would have expected for the pent—up demand there is for people to travel. we for the pent-up demand there is for people to travel.— for the pent-up demand there is for people to travel. we have the easter holida s,...