BP boss ‘won’t quit’ over Gulf oil leak

BP CHIEF executive Tony Hayward yesterday said he won’t step down over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and predicted his company will recover from the disaster.

Hayward said he would not quit, and he had the “absolute intention of seeing this through to the end”.

“We are going to stop the leak. We’re going to clean up the oil, we’re going to remediate any environmental damage and we are going to return the Gulf coast to the position it was in prior to this event,” Hayward said. “That’s an absolute commitment, we will be there long after the media has gone, making good on our promises.”