THE Commons unanimously recommended robber baron Philip Green be stripped of his knighthood yesterday amid the increasingly toxic fallout of the BHS debacle, dubbed “one of the biggest corporate scandals of modern times.”

MPs heard that they had “no other option” but to support the push to strip Mr Green of his knighthood given his inaction to plug a gaping hole in the BHS pension fund, which had a surplus before Mr Green’s family took hundreds of millions out of the business.

They have asked the honours forfeiture committee to ensure Mr Green’s knighthood is “cancelled and annulled,” with the non-binding vote viewed by one former minister as part of the businessman’s “humiliation.”