TUC chief calls for directors of P&O Ferries to be disqualified

Francis O’Grady wrote there were three separate legal grounds for disqualifying P&O Ferries CEO Peter Hebblethwaite and his fellow directors. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

The head of the Trades Union Congress has written to the Insolvency Service calling for it to disqualify the directors of P&O Ferries after they sacked nearly 800 crew without notice.

In a letter seen by the Guardian, Frances O’Grady, the TUC’s general secretary, said the Insolvency Service should “initiate disqualification proceedings against the directors of P&O Ferries Division Holdings Limited”.