内容摘要：Mr Howell had attempted the challenge in 2024, but it was cut short due to bad weather.

Mr Howell had attempted the challenge in 2024, but it was cut short due to bad weather.

The Phones 4U founder told Laura Kuenssberg that ministers should speak to firms privately about their working practices, "rather than just blast them on the TV".Haigh's remarks have also attracted criticism from the Conservatives, with shadow business secretary Kevin Hollinrake arguing Labour "don't understand business".

However, Liam Byrne, the Labour MP who chairs the Commons business committee, has defended her comments.He said Haigh had been "absolutely right to say the behaviour of P&O, owned by DP World, in the past has been "completely unacceptable".DP World has said the expansion of the London Gateway port would bring Thurrock in Essex hundreds of jobs.

The United Arab Emirates-based company also owns the container port in Southampton.A spokesperson for the company told the BBC

it had been "given the clarity we need" after "constructive and positive discussions with the government".

"We look forward to participating in Monday's International Investment Summit," they added.Jingye had put the UK's ability to produced virgin steel at risk, Reynolds told the programme - adding "it might not be sabotage, it might be neglect".

British Steel's plant in Scunthorpe is the last plant in the UK capable of producing virgin steel, which has fewer imperfections and is used in major construction projects like new buildings and railways.Were the plant to cease production, the UK would become the only member of the G7 group of leading economies without the ability to make it - a prospect the government views as a risk to the country's long-term economic security.

The government is looking for a buyer to take over British Steel.Earlier on Sunday, Reynolds told Sky News he would not sell it to another Chinese company.