Michelle Mone has been thrust back into the political spotlight after the Covid inquiry concluded that the Conservative government's 'VIP lane' for pandemic contracts contributed to almost £10 billion of wasted PPE spending, with the fast-track system awarding £203 million of deals to PPE Medpro, a company linked to the Tory peer.
Inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett found that the high-priority route 'embedded unfairness' in how public money was handed out. Her report, published in London on Tuesday as part of module five of the Covid-19 inquiry, examined how Boris Johnson's government bought personal protective equipment between 2020 and 2022.
