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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

Former Wilko staff urge MPs to question owners over collapse

A woman walks past closed Wilko branch in Walthamstow, London.
The Wilkinson family controlled Wilko until its collapse this year. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Former employees of Wilko have called on MPs to hold the Wilkinson family, which owned the company, to account over the collapse of the budget retailer this year.

The GMB union, which represents thousands of former Wilko staff, has written to Liam Byrne MP, the newly elected Labour chair of parliament’s business and trade select committee, to hold a special emergency session to question the family.

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