Theresa May eyes merits of German blue-collar boardroom model

Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May wants to ape Germany by appointing workers to corporate boardrooms.

She might balk at going quite as far as big German companies, where staff take half the seats on supervisory boards and have a say over investment and firing executives.

But there’s plenty to commend a reappraisal of Britain’s cosy and ineffective system of non-executive directorships.