UK: some reflections from the former chairman of Mitchells and Butlers plc

Simon Laffin was last month removed, in somewhat acrimonious circumstances, as the chairman of Mitchells and Butlers plc at the company's annual general meeting (for background information see here and here). In today's Daily Telegraph newspaper he reflects on some of the governance issues raised by his removal and the circumstances in which a shareholder should be permitted to have board level representation.