A lord's 'veneer of establishment credibility' was worth little to BHS | Michael White

Supposed members of the establishment such as Lord Grabiner QC don’t offer much value these days, as the retailer discovered

Parliament’s damning report on “King” Phil Greed’s role in the BHS scandal has slipped too quickly back on to next day’s inside pages, a controversy clearly too close for comfort for some media tycoons. King Phil himself has created a diversion by threatening to sue the Labour MP Frank Field for saying he has behaved “worse than Robert Maxwell”. Field doesn’t seem too bothered. Clever Frank.

But surely more attention needs to be paid to the role of Lord Grabiner QC, the non-executive chairman of Greed’s Arcadia group from 2002 until last year’s final meltdown, and a very grand legal grandee.

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