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Martin Vander Weyer

I’d like to be a fly on the wall when Sir Philip meets Sir Humphrey

Martin Vander Weyer’s Any Other Business The appointment of fashion re-tailer Sir Philip Green to be David Cameron’s adviser on public-sector waste looks even more improbable than Sir Richard Branson’s stint as Margaret Thatcher’s ‘litter tsar’. The BHS billionaire and the Virgin balloonist both operate through offshore private companies partly because they can, but mostly