OK, no workers in the boardroom: but May must be strong on executive pay

A taskforce of heavyweights are trying to block the prime minister’s plan for pay ratios and binding votes. She must stand up to themTheresa May’s corporate governance agenda is in trouble. The prime minister last week abandoned her plan to put workers on boards, though she couldn’t bring herself to admit it frankly. Now comes an attack on two other key proposed reforms: the idea of forcing companies to publish a ratio showing how the pay of the chief executive compares with th