the chair of the transport committee the conservative mp, hew merriman, suggested that he should resigns angered mps and many other people too, it was a range of things. first of all, there was the issue of whether the law was broken by not giving enough consultation to the workforce. two other things came up in that committee that people did not like either. first of all, because the ferries were flagged abroad in cyprus and the bahamas, he said it was not necessary to give the british government proper notification of p&0's intentions. but what really got the goat of some of the mps was the intention of p80 to take on agency staff at £5.50 an hour. peter hebblethwaite's own salary is £325,000 a year. but that £5.50 figure, of course, is far less than the minimum wage here. today, the transport secretary, grant shapps, fired off at peter hebblethwaite and suggested that he had both made a pigs ear and a dogs dinner of the sackings and he called for his resignation. the idea that you come to parliament, you deliberately... you admit that you deliberately set out to break the law, it's n