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USDAW: Hannett lambasts Green and his wife
Chain’s former owners ‘played monopoly with workers’ lives’

GREEDY Sir Philip and Lady Green have “played a game of corporate monopoly” with workers’ lives, Usdaw leader John Hannett said yesterday as the billionaire former BHS bosses were lined up to parade on a catwalk of the country’s most cash-cushioned couples.

The pair are ranked fifth in an forthcoming index of Britain’s wealthiest couples, with their riches put at £2.787 billion, though this is a fall of £433 million on last year’s estimate.

MPs have called for Monaco-based mogul Mr Green to be de-gonged since the collapse — with the loss of 11,000 jobs — of his former department store business last year.

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