Burberry's top executives are to be summoned before a parliamentary committee over the luxury fashion group's plans to close a factory in Wales . The closure will result in the loss of 300 jobs and everyone from Secretary of State for Wales , Peter Hain, the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury and actor and global face of Burberry, Ioan Gruffudd, have voiced their opposition to the plan. Gruffudd even wrote chief executive Angela Ahrendts asking her to reconsider the plans. Now Ahrendts and Burberry Chairman John Peace will have to testify before the Commons Welsh Affairs Select Committee, which is questioning them as part of its inquiry into globalisation.

Though Burberry has declined to comment on the news, a spokesman said that keeping the factory at Treorchy open was no longer financially favourable. He said that the plans for closure followed in the wake of a year-long review and that Burberry would try to help as many workers as it could.