Chris O’Shea, the chief executive of Centrica , was urged to examine his conscience after accepting an annual bonus of £1.4m and a long-term share bonus of £2.3m on top of his £790,000 annual salary , as millions of households struggled to pay for heating. The total is five times the previous year, though on that occasion he had waived his bonus owing to high energy bills.
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