West Ham Vice Chairman Karren Brady resigned on Monday as Chairman of Taveta, the holding company for Sir Philip’s Arcadia group while refusing to say why.
In the wake of her walk out, Sunday Times business editor Oliver Shah told BBC Radio 4 today: ‘It seems that she [Karren Brady] has tried to front it out and realised it is untenable to stay given all her comments on women’s rights in the workplace. Either she knew these NDAs [non disclosure agreements] were being signed and she presided over a culture where this was able to happen – or she didn’t know and was incompetent’.
Labour MP Jess Phillips said: ‘Karren Brady will still have to answer to what went on under her watch and so she should, but it is Green who is ultimately responsible and, like always, it feels like powerful men can get away with anything.’
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat leader, said Brady must explain why she has suddenly ‘decided she can’t defend the indefensible’.