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Hi, I'm Anouche. And on today's episode of the New Statement podcast,

I'm delighted to be joined by the Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hall East,

Carl Turner, a former shadow attorney general who has also held the shipping aviation and

road safety brief in recent years.

He's been dealing with P&O fairies and his constituency for years, and in recent days has

been at King George Dock, giving the country updates on the situation for the company's crew members,

when 800 of them were laid off with no notice last Thursday.

Now, Carl, thanks so much for joining us. I know it's been an incredibly busy few days for you,

and I was following your tweets and interviews on Thursday when I was covering this story when

it was breaking. You were actually in touch with workers on board the pride of Hull Ferry who were

refusing to disembark the unions had advised them to stay on board until the terms of their

redundancy were clearer. What stage are they at now in terms of that standoff? And are you still in

constant communication with those workers? First of all, thank you very much for having me on

Anouche. Look, it's a constantly moving, very fluid situation. I was at King George Dock

on Thursday, as it happens, my little girl Stella was pulling off school, so for a time I

boarded the vessel, the pride of Hull, and I was tipped off by one of the officers that they

captured had given the order instruction to his crew to lift the gangways, so for a time I was

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