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PA Staff & Aaron Morris

Boris Johnson backs calls for P&O chief executive to stand down after admitting sackings broke the law

Boris Johnson has backed calls for the boss of P&O Ferries to quit as the Government pledged to change the law to stop other firms who may try to 'knowingly breaking the law'.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps called for chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite to resign on Friday after his 'brazen' comments to MPs where he admitted breaking employment law over the sacking of 800 workers without notice.

Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Mr Shapps promised to 'make sure the laws are changed to stop them using loopholes like flagging their ships in Cyprus to avoid and evade British law and not give notice of what they were doing, and not talk to the workers and the unions'.

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