I’ve had a horrible summer, Green complains

Sir Philip Green may have spent much of the summer on his yacht, but it has been a torrid time, nevertheless, with a heart operation and controversy about BHSEaglePress

Sir Philip Green has stepped up his campaign to restore his reputation before a potentially humiliating Commons debate tomorrow on stripping him of his knighthood.

In an interview with ITV News last night, Sir Philip outlined the “horrible, horrible, horrible” summer he had endured after a damning report by MPs castigated his conduct in the sale of BHS last year. A year after he sold BHS for £1 to a consortium led by Dominic Chappell, the department stores retailer collapsed, costing thousands of workers their jobs and placing their pensions at risk.

Sir Philip’s interview came on the same day that two barristers, in a report commissioned by the retail billionaire, claimed he had done nothing wrong and that BHS’s sale was conducted properly.