This post is not about Philip Green - I certainly do not like what I have read about his business behaviour - but rather about Baroness Altmann and her comments about his 'late night bullying by email' of her during the BHS crisis. There were two emails quoted; in both PG said that he needed an answer from her, would have to take some action if she did not make a decision, and 'thank you' was also used. One of them was timed at about 8.45 p.m. Can this really constitute late night intimidation and bullying - unless she is not telling the whole story, which I doubt given that she is trying to make the point that she was intimidated, and would surely have reproduced the 'worst' of his correspondence.
This is not an excuse for the perpetrator of the emails, but rather a concern that by screaming 'Bullying!! bullying!!' at the slightest excuse, the whole issue becomes diminished. As a Government Minster, if Baroness Altmann cannot cope with emails of this nature then I am left wondering how well she can do her job; this looks like overreaction, but perhaps I do not have all the story.
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