The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to
defend the idea of
public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded
pensions that have now come onto its books.