Sir Philip Green: Permatan king of retail with a reputation in tatters

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A bold, brash wheeler-dealer, Sir Philip Green has amassed, along with his wife Lady Tina, a fortune that currently stands at £3.22bn, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. That came after the MP said the committees would “laugh” if Sir Philip offered less than £600m to save employees' pensions. After BHS went into administration in April, Sir Philip was criticised by MPs including Conservative Richard Fuller, who said: “It may be that facing a large and growing pension deficit that the previous owner, when Retail Acquisitions came knocking on his door to purchase his business, went laughing all the way to the bank. “But if that sale was done on the understanding that it was avoiding a responsibility for those pension losses, then that £1 he received was equivalent to 30 pieces of silver in his betrayal of the employees and pensioners of BHS.” Sir Philip's knighthood is being reviewed in the wake of the store chain's collapse, the Cabinet Office said in a letter to Labour MP Jim McMahon last week.