Peter Hebblethwaite: Last News

Scandal-hit P&O Ferries was accused of plumbing new depths yesterday after telling its new foreign workforce : Take a pay cut or go home.

It's been less than two weeks since P&O Ferries made 800 members of staff redundant with immediate effect via a Zoom call. Seafarers have been replaced with agency workers who are being paid below the UK's minimum wage, the company's CEO Peter Hebblethwaite said last week.

A P&O ferry has taken off from a Scots port for the first time since 800 members of staff were sacked.

NAGA Muchetty ripped into a "hateful" troll on social media this morning who mistakenly thought she was presenting BBC Breakfast. On Friday morning, Ben Thompson and Victoria Derbyshire were on the show and the latter interviewed Secretary of State Grant Shapps.

BBC Breakfast reporter Naga Munchetty has taken to Twitter to call out a troll who mistakenly thought she was presenting the early morning programme.Ben Thompson, who wore a suit, and Victoria Derbyshire, who wore her hair in loose curls with a pink high-neck top, were on the show and the latter interviewed Secretary of State Grant Shapps.She grilled him thoroughly over P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite after he admitted he broke the law after not consulting over the mass-sacking of 800 workers. Viewers called him out on social media as a “hypocrite” after Shapps said he should resign, due to the fact that his party breached lockdown rules several times throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.One hater wrote: “Just had to turn Naga [on BBC Breakfast] off again.

Officials at the Department for Transport knew about the plans to sack around 800 staff at P&O a day before workers were told, it has emerged.