The British press has been unable to name the famous businessman who has taken out an injunction against the Daily Telegraph to prevent it reporting on the multiple allegations of sexual harassment, racist abuse and bullying against him.
But such laws do not apply to parliament where, in the House of Lords, Peter Hain named this person today as Sir Philip Green. This matters because the law does allow journalists to report (but not comment on) what is said in parliament. So we can now therefore print what Lord Hain told peers today:
‘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 given that the media have been subject to an injunction preventing publication of the full details of this story which is clearly in the public interest.
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