Opposition MPs call for tycoon’s knighthood to be revoked after Peter Hain uses Lords speech to name him

Sir Philip Green has been named as the businessman at the centre of an injunction linked to allegations known as the “British #MeToo scandal”, after a Labour peer used an ancient parliamentary right to name him in the House of Lords. Green, the owner of Top Shop, was named in parliament by Labour peer Peter Hain, who said he had been contacted by “somebody intimately involved in the case” and was using parliamentary privilege in the public interest. Hain said in his speech: ‘I feel it’s my duty under parliamentary privilege to name Philip Green as the individual in question, given that the media have been subject to an injunction preventing publication of the full details of a story which is clearly in the public interest.’

Find out more about the former MP. On Thursday, Lord Hain told the Lords he had decided to name Green, saying: “Having been contacted by somebody intimately involved in the case of a powerful businessman using non-disclosure agreements and substantial payments to conceal the truth about serious and repeated sexual harassment, racist abuse and bullying which is compulsively continuing, I feel it’s my duty under parliamentary privilege to name Philip Green as the individual in question, given that the media have been subject to an injunction preventing publication of the full details of a story which is clearly in the public interest.”

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Green said he would not comment on any court proceedings or anything that was said in parliament, but issued a robust statement denying any wrongdoing.
Labour peer Peter Hain uses parliamentary privilege to name Philip Green as the British businessman who used an injunction to prevent allegations of sexual harassment against him being published in The Daily Telegraph.