CBI appoints ethics consultancy Principia Advisory in fight for survival

Rain Newton-Smith, the new CBI director, has written to members to lay out the group’s action plan. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The CBI has appointed the business ethics consultancy Principia Advisory to help overhaul its operations, after a series of sexual misconduct allegations reported by the Guardian.

The new head of the Confederation of British Industry, Rain Newton-Smith, has written to members to lay out its action plan, just over a week after she took the helm and apologised to the victims of sexual misconduct at the business lobby group.