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Aletha Adu

Michelle Mone accuses Rachel Reeves of inflammatory remarks over PPE ruling

Michelle Mone in a red robe with white collar
Michelle Mone in the House of Lords in 2017. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP

Michelle Mone has accused the chancellor of using “dangerous and inflammatory” language about her, after a company linked to the peer was ordered to repay millions of pounds for breaching a Covid-19 PPE contract.

Mone, who has had the Conservative whip suspended, has faced cross-party calls for her to be stripped of her peerage. At a fringe event this week at Labour’s party conference, Rachel Reeves joked that she had a vendetta against Mone, adding: “Clearly she shouldn’t be in the House of Lords.”

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