Labour urges Kwasi Kwarteng to launch legal action against P&O Ferries

Letter to business secretary calls firm's sacking of 800 workers scandalous' and a criminal offence

Labour has urged the business secretary to launch legal action against P&O Ferries over its scandalous" decision to sack 800 workers without warning, which the party said is a criminal offence.

Shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh, deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds have written to Kwasi Kwarteng, asking if he will begin proceedings for what they called the scandalous action" of the ferry company.