DISGRACED retailer Sir Philip Green’s attempt to gag accountancy watchdog the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) was thrown out by the High Court today.

The Monaco-based tycoon’s company Taveta Investments — parent of Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Miss Selfridge — tried to stop the FRC publishing a damning report on the audit of BHS by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The collapse of the high street retailer in 2016 saw 11,000 jobs lost and left a £571 million black hole in the company’s pension fund just over a year after Mr Green had sold the company to three-time bankrupt Dominic Chappell for £1.