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Originally Posted by Chris
That’s a bit desperate, even for you.
‘On his watch’ generally is used in discussion of failures the one on watch (or their subordinates) should have seen and taken action on.
It is very hard to see how the government could or should have done anything here, especially as P&O has now admitted it knowingly broke the law in the whole area of *not* telling people what it was planning.
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Johnson was under pressure on the issue and bought time by saying the government would take action against the company.
The underlying issue here is that UK law is weaker here than some of its European peers which have prevented mass sackings and P&O has exploited this weakness. I'm not sure the finger can be pointed at anyone but the Government with regard to the UK's weaker legislation.