A cross-party group of MPs has joined the growing number of people calling for the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, to be sacked after the collapse of a controversial Brexit ferry contract.
The £13.8 million deal with Seaborne Freight to run ferry services between Ramsgate and Ostend collapsed at the weekend after one of the firm’s main backers pulled out.
Having awarded the contract to a company without ships, the deal with Seaborne “descended further into farce when it emerged the company had copied terms and conditions from what appeared to be a pizza delivery company onto its website”, The Guardian says.
Grayling has also faced allegations his department acted illegally by failing to put the contract out to tender.
Following the collapse of the deal, Labour have called for the transport secretary to be sacked. They have been joined by the Lib Dems, the former head of the civil service and even some members of Grayling’s own party.