Spurs criticised as electricians go unpaid for work to finish new stadium

• Recruitment agency collapse has led to workers not being paid
• Contractors working round the clock to get stadium completed

Tottenham Hotspur have been urged to step in to pay contracted workers at their new stadium after electricians said they had been left out of pocket by thousands of pounds in the run-up to Christmas.

The electricians, who have been installing alarms at the new £800m stadium at White Hart Lane, are among more than 100 across London and the south-east facing uncertainty about how they will be paid after the agency that recruited them, BCL Recruitment, fell into financial difficulties. The firm told workers “our funding line is now abruptly inactive”.

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