LONDON (Reuters) – P&O Ferries broke the law by sacking 800 seafarers last week without consulting unions, the company’s chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite said on Thursday. “There’s absolutely no doubt that we were required to consult with the unions,” he told a committee of lawmakers. “We chose not to consult, and we are and we will compensate everybody in full for that.” Hebblethwaite said P&O Ferries, a unit of Dubai-owned ports firm DP World, was losing an unsustainable amount of money and it had decided that every other option available would result in the closure of the business. The c…