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Backbench debates in the House of Commons often attract very little attention, but today’s may turn out to be remarkable. It seems highly likely that the Commons will vote for Sir Philip Green to be stripped of his knighthood.
MPs are due to debate a motion on the joint report from the Commons business committee and the Commons work and pensions committee into the collapse of BHS. It says Green should fulfil his promise to make good the deficit in the BHS pension fund. But more than 100 MPs have signed an amendment tabled by the Conservative MP Richard Fuller saying Green should lose his knighthood. It says:
[This House] noting that Philip Green received his knighthood for his services for the retail industry, believes his actions raise the question of whether he should be allowed to continue to be a holder of the honour and calls on the honours forfeiture committee to recommend his knighthood be cancelled and annulled.
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