Carillion Highlights from the Carillion directors' evidence to MPs The joint select committee inquiry into firm’s liquidation involved heated exchanges• Former Carillion directors ‘asleep at the wheel’, claims MP Carillion’s former interim CEO Keith Cochrane and former finance directors Emma Mercer and Zafar Khan answering MPs’ questions. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty ImagesFormer Carillion directors struggled to answer for their stewardship of the company in an occasionally stormy evidence session in front of MPs on Tuesday. Here are some of the highlights. Rachel Reeves MP: “You say how sad and disappointed you are, but what actions do you take? Why don’t you give some money back and try to put right some of this wrong?”---------Former interim Carillion chief executive Keith Cochrane: “The business got itself into this position ...”Frank Field MP: “The business didn’t, the directors did.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2018 16:14 UTC