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Evening Standard
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Politics
Callum Parke

Michelle Mone accuses Government of ‘scapegoating’ ahead of PPE court ruling

Baroness Mone speaking in the House of Lords, London (PA) - (PA Archive)

Tory peer Michelle Mone has accused the Government of making her and her husband a “poster couple for the PPE scandal” and claimed it had turned down multimillion-pound offers to settle a High Court legal battle with a company she is linked with.

PPE Medpro, a consortium led by Baroness Mone’s husband, businessman Doug Barrowman, is being sued by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) over allegations it breached a contract for 25 million surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic.

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