{"id":161022,"date":"2019-03-06T11:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/karren-brady-right-to-quit-philip-green-role-says-sugar\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:55:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:55:19","slug":"karren-brady-right-to-quit-philip-green-role-says-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/karren-brady-right-to-quit-philip-green-role-says-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Karren Brady right to quit Philip Green role, says Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lord Alan Sugar has weighed into the controversy surrounding Sir Philip Green, claiming Baroness Karren Brady did the \u201cright thing\u201d in quitting the retail tycoon\u2019s empire.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Press Association, the Amstrad founder said his Apprentice<\/em> co-star and fellow peer\u2019s position was \u201cuntenable\u201d given recent allegations of harassment against Sir Philip.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cKarren\u2019s very well-known for supporting women\u2019s rights, supporting women\u2019s business and all that stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think that the circumstances surrounding her current position with that company is that it became a bit untenable, and I suppose it was with a heavy heart that she had to do the right thing and leave<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Lady Brady last month resigned from her position as chairwoman of Taveta Investments, the holding company that owns Arcadia group.<\/p>\n The businesswoman, who is also vice-chairwoman of West Ham United Football Club, has previously been an outspoken critic of abuses of power in the workplace<\/strong> and was among those to condemn film producer Harvey Weinstein. In 2014 she was appointed a CBE for services to entrepreneurship and women in business.<\/p>\n Before her departure from Taveta, she faced accusations of hypocrisy for refusing to step down from Taveta, including from Dragons\u2019 Den star Duncan Bannatyne, who called her continued employment \u201cdisgusting\u201d.<\/p>\n She defended her position, saying she had a \u201csense of duty\u201d to employees at retail chains<\/strong> such as Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Evans and Burton. But she ceased to be a director of the company on 20 February.<\/p>\n A representative for Lady Brady did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Sir Philip has faced fresh calls for his knighthood to be taken away after it emerged he had used non-disclosure agreements to keep complaints about his conduct private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10585,6,10494],"tags":[11120,12082,10267,13075],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n