Guardian’s David Conn wins Paul Foot award for Michelle Mone investigation

David Conn and his team reported last year that Mone and her children received £29m from the profits of a PPE business. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

The Guardian reporter David Conn has won the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism for his report on a Tory peer’s use of a government “VIP lane” to provide PPE during the Covid pandemic.

Conn and the Guardian’s investigations team reported last year that Michelle Mone and her children secretly received £29m originating from the profits of a PPE business that was awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to ministers.