S ir Philip Green is not everybody’s idea of a natural diplomat. The Topshop tycoon’s last few years in the public eye were characterised by snarling rows with politicians and journalists, as his business empire crumbled around him. Yet those who still deal with the one-time King of the high street report that the man in Monaco has mellowed.
This gentler version of Green — Green 2.0, if you will — is now smack bang in the middle of a tense situation. Sources say the 72-year-old is acting as a referee between Mahmud Kamani, the domineering executive chairman of Boohoo, and Mike Ashley, the unpredictable tycoon behind the Frasers empire.
The rivalry between Kamani and Ashley, both 60, was reignited when Ashley’s Frasers Group — which.
