The UK government declined a chance to get £364m out of Carillion before it failed, and British taxpayers are now on the hook for that money

Boundegar March 6, 2018, 12:15am 6

Never heard of them on this side of the pond. Were they any particular kind of mega-business? Or more like a kind of Amalgamated Consolidated?

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