It seems in UK your role can be put redundancy but you are not technically fired. It is the position that needs to be decided and they need to compensate you ac

It seems in UK your role can be put redundancy but you are not technically fired. It is the position that needs to be decided and they need to compensate you accordingly to the law. They chose you because most of the factors are time dependent, so as you had not start it was cheaper to cancel the contract. I think the worst part is that probably they knew about this 2 or 3 months ago but held the information because they "cannot" speak openly about layoffs because of inside trading rules and etc. For me, they should have told you that months earlier and compensate for, at least, the financial loss you had. And never send a notice to quit before having anything triple checked.you can condition your move to their speed in sending the contract and offer, out of any contracts, to start preparing for the change.