BHS: asset strippers, chancers, and governance failures

By Paul Hodgson2016-08-10T12:15:00

Parliament released a scathing report on the sale and management of retail chain BHS in late July. The report, says Paul Hodgson, led to calls for someone to be stripped of his knighthood—a first in Parliament history.

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