UK coastguard agency chief faces calls to resign over ‘misleading’ claims in pay row

Regulator says poll cited by Virginia McVea in move to strip rescue officers of pay did not sufficiently back up her claim The head of the UK coastguard agency is facing calls to resign after she was found to have used unverified data to back up her controversial plan to strip rescue officers of their pay.

Virginia McVea, the chief executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), claimed more than 90% of coastguard rescue officers supported the proposal, citing an official survey.

Now, after an Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) investigation, the agency has admitted its poll did not sufficiently back up the claim.

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