Even now, Philip Green’s erstwhile chums squirm to avoid criticising the fallen tycoon Catherine Bennett
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David Cameron and Michael Gove once held him up as a paragon for us mere mortals
Prince Philip. Philip May. Philip Hammond. Philip Hollobone. The Philippines. That Philips abound in David Cameron’s autobiography makes it all the more frustrating when you search for any references to Sir Philip Green, whom Cameron once favoured most out of all of the Philips.
Philip Green, previously knighted by Tony Blair, was deferred to and esteemed to the point of his appointment in 2010 as the Cameron government’s “waste tsar”, both a national role model and specific rebuke to a civil service considered less able than the owner of Topshop and BHS (this was before he sold its carcass for £1 to an ex-bankrupt now in prison). Continue reading...
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