Jack Irvine, chairman of Media House, said: "We want to know a bit more about the role of the Treasury in the final days, and whether Mr Brown and Shriti Vadera (now a Government minister) were involved in taking decisions on Rover’s future. John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards have recruited public relations specialists Media House to defend their roles in the management of a factory which employed 6,500 workers at the time of its closure in April 2005. It’s the secrecy around the process that breeds suspicions."Īs fury continued to mount over the long delays to the investigation, Gordon Brown was facing possible further woes over MG Rover, with the much maligned Phoenix Four set to attack the Government’s role in the Birmingham car firm’s demise. He absolved Business Secretary John Hutton of blame and said: "John Hutton’s hands are tied – the Companies Act rules mean that the Government cannot intervene.
If there is a problem, then we need to know." And Tory MP Peter Luff called for reforms to the legal system for investigating companies in the wake of the MG Rover inquiry. "My real concern now is not just that it is taking so long, but that there is an absolute silence on why it is taking so long. "The clock is ticking, the costs are mounting and the people of Longbridge are left waiting.
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THE inquiry into the collapse of MG Rover has been likened to War and Peace after clocking up a bill of £12 million plus – with no end in sight.įollowing revelations that the cost of the three-year investigation stands at £12.2 million, including £1.8 million in VAT, Northfield MP Richard Burden said: "I don’t know how long it took to write War and Peace but it certainly looks like the Rover inspectors are trying to trump it.
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