Carillion was brought down by projects in Qatar and at hospitals in Liverpool and Birmingham DANIEL SORABJI/AFP/GETTY IMAGESFormer directors of Carillion have been warned about playing “the blame game” before a parliamentary hearing tomorrow, when they will be questioned about the company’s collapse. Frank Field, chairman of the work and pensions committee, said that bosses already seemed to be shifting the blame for the debacle that forced the contractor into insolvency last month, owing more than £1 billion. The blame game has started. It’s the select committee’s job to say where the buck stops,” Mr Field said. “They’ve cleverly constructed a game of passing the parcel, but when the music stopped everyone had chairs and everyone had a prize .

Source: The Times February 05, 2018 00:01 UTC