“Well, I think that that is not true,” Simon replied as Jon interrupted: “You were at the last stage of the talks?”
The CEO insisted: “We had three weeks of talks with Acas, which I was very involved with, including over the weekend.
“And I think we have put our final offer to the CWU, we made 11 concessions based on the feedback from our team, and I am available at any time at all.”
“To make sure that we can discuss the exact content of that [and] to make sure that it’s understood,” he added.