Sir Philip Green has been named as the businessman at the centre of a sexual harassment scandal, in a case that has been described as a "British #MeToo” moment.
Former Commons leader Lord Peter Hain revealed the name under parliamentary privilege while speaking in the House of Lords, saying it was his “duty”.
The fashion tycoon had taken out a gagging order to stop the media reporting claims he bullied and sexually harassed staff.
But Lord Hain said: “As someone 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.”
