Only eight months into the job, Fritz Henderson, CEO of General Motors in Detroit, was asked to leave by the carmaker’s board Tuesday. Chairman Ed Whitacre will take over as interim head of the company while it conducts a search for a new CEO. Whitacre provided few clues about Henderson’s departure to a hastily organized press conference, but made it clear that the board was unhappy about the rate of progress being made in restructuring. The US government is the main shareholder, with a 60 percent stake in GM, but a White House spokesperson said there was no pressure from the government to make the change.

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