"Michelle Mone has said she has no wish to return to the House of Lords as a Conservative peer after a company linked to her was ordered to repay millions of pounds for breaching a Covid-19 PPE contract. In a letter to Kemi Badenoch, Lady Mone accused the Tory leader of using inflammatory language against her and suggested she was leading the party to extinction. Mone denied any wrongdoing and said she never received a penny from PPE Medpro."
"On Wednesday, the company was ordered to pay back 122m to the government after it was found to have breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. The judge concluded that PPE Medpro had not complied with the legal and regulatory requirements to ensure the gowns, manufactured in China, were certified and validated to be sterile."
"In a statement, the company, which was ultimately owned by Mone's husband, Doug Barrowman, claimed that the couple had been made scapegoats for the then Conservative government's overspending on PPE during the pandemic. Mone and Barrowman for years publicly denied through their lawyers that they were involved in PPE Medpro, until in December 2023 they confirmed their involvement and Barrowman said he was the company's ultimate beneficial owner."
Michelle Mone stated she does not wish to return to the House of Lords as a Conservative peer after a company linked to her was ordered to repay millions for breaching a Covid-19 PPE contract. Mone wrote to Kemi Badenoch accusing the Tory leader of inflammatory language and suggested the party faced extinction under current leadership. Mone denied wrongdoing and said she never received money from PPE Medpro. A judge ordered PPE Medpro to repay 122m after finding gowns supplied from China were not certified or validated as sterile. The company, ultimately owned by Doug Barrowman, said the couple were scapegoats. Several senior politicians called for Mone to relinquish her peerage following the judgment.
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