What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander is an old truth that one person or situation should be treated the same way another is treated.
So when Boris Johnson and Grant Shapps rightly demand that P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite quit for breaking the law, the PM is duty bound to resign for breaking Covid lockdown laws and the Transport Secretary should be leading calls for him to go.
Dubai-owned P&O’s instant mass sacking of 800 workers is a crime against decency and it is scandalous that Britain doesn’t have a legal system automatically ordering their immediate reinstatement with mounting fines to sink firms that disobey.