Professional disagreement is allowed, so why is BT drawing attention to itself in this way?
The rift, or alleged rift, at BT can’t rival the one on the front pages. We would probably have forgotten about it if somebody at the telecoms company had not insisted on issuing a half-baked statement on Monday in response to a three-day-old story.
As is often the case, the company fiercely denied something that wasn’t central to the original reporting. “Any suggestion” that Jan du Plessis, the chairman whose departure this year was announced at the start of this month, “has impeded the transformation of BT is without foundation,” it thundered.