Reports: Taxpayers face £50m bill for Comet collapse

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A document to be released by administrator Deloitte will reveal insufficient funds raised to pay staff

Comet's administrators have failed to raise enough money from the sale of the chain's assets to pay the redundancy bill, reports have claimed. A Sky News article claims that Deloitte is set to a...

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