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Shy bosses ‘must face MPs or fines’

BOSSES who refuse to appear before parliamentary committees must face criminal charges and a fine, Labour demanded yesterday.

Shadow Commons leader Chris Bryant said that Britain’s most “destructively powerful people” had regularly dodged calls to answer questions from MPs.

News Corp baron Rupert Murdoch, Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley and most recently former BHS owner Sir Philip Green all evaded scrutiny until they were formally summoned, while Craft Foods chief executive Irene Rosenfeld point-blank refused to answer questions about her company’s buyout of Cadbury and got away with it.

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