Interserve’s collapse shows the UK’s outsourcing model is broken, says the New Statesman’s Grace Blakely. “The final—and most overlooked—losers are the company’s workers. Many UK employees fear job cuts as Interserve’s former creditors seek to extract every penny of value from the firm,” Blakely writes. Rehana Azam, the GMB’s general secretary, says “Interserve was clearly in trouble, and yet ministers saw fit to hand it hundreds of millions of pounds of public money. What on earth were they thinking? This government’s obsession with outsourcing has now put another 45,000 jobs at risk, along with thousands more in the supply chain.”