Andrea Leadsom under fire over lack of talks with Thomas Cook
almost 6 years in The guardian
Sources say business secretary ‘didn’t want a meeting and didn’t ask for one’
The business secretary, Andrea Leadsom, has come under fire after it emerged she did not speak to Thomas Cook executives during increasingly frantic talks between the company and the government leading up to its collapse last week.
Records of telephone calls and meetings, seen by the Guardian, indicate that there was widespread awareness among government ministers that the 178-year-old tour operator’s finances were deteriorating for months prior to its failure. Continue reading...
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