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British Gas strike heats up as engineers take to picket lines again
British Gas workers outside the headquarters of Centrica in Windsor, Berkshire, on the first of a seven day strike over new contracts, last week

A ROW broke out today over whether British Gas boss Chris O’Shea lied to an MP over the company’s fire-and-rehire attack on engineers’ pay and conditions.

Labour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth Stephen Doughty told the House of Commons on Monday that Mr O’Shea had tried to suggest to him in September that the company was not using such tactics, “despite having written to [GMB] members in July to do just that.”

Parent company Centrica denied Mr Doughty’s claim and said that it had written to the MP asking him to retract the comments.

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