Topshop

So yeah, my background is in retail.

I started on, um, the shop floor in Kettering, um, at Topshop, which doesn't exist on our high streets anymore.

But I really, uh, fell in love with, with retail, and I worked my way up to then going and working in a head office, um, at ASOS.

And kind of like to Gareth's point, one thing that I always thought about, like, I was around a lot of people who would probably class themselves as not necessarily political.

It was a VHS shirt.

BHS is part of fashion mogul Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group of companies, which includes other household names like Miss Selfridge and Topshop.

Last year, Arcadia posted pre-tax profits of more than 480 million pounds.

In Bangladesh, one of BHS's suppliers has a contract with Vaz Apparel's sister factory, Basic Shirts, to produce clothing for its stores in the UK.

I think, um, going back to what I said at the start, this Oxford Street plays an outsized role in the nation's psyche.

And, and I, I'm not exaggerating for effect, but since I've taken on the role, pretty much every single person I've spoken to has either had an opinion on it, they've got a memory of Oxford Street, they may have gone to their first HMV or their Topshop usually.

Those, those two are sort of-

... or John Lewis.

Um, or they've got a view on our proposals, and they are negative or positive.