Grant Shapps writes to Twitter to ‘remind’ it to comply with UK law

Exclusive: Business secretary acts after Elon Musk announces sudden job cuts including staff at British operations

The business secretary, Grant Shapps, has written to Twitter to ensure it is complying with UK law after the US company's new owner, Elon Musk, announced that hundreds of its British staff would be fired.

Musk took control of the social media platform at the end of October, and within days launched deep job cuts, with as many as 3,700 redundancies expected worldwide.