Michelle Mone lashes out at former health minister over his ‘lost texts’

Mone wrote to Lord Bethell on X: ‘You seem to have mysteriously discovered access to your text messages from 2020. Now you’ve finally found them, will you be sending them all to the Covid inquiry?’ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP

Michelle Mone has hit back at a former Conservative health minister after he accused her of not being honest with him during the pandemic about her financial interests.

James Bethell had challenged the disgraced Conservative peer’s claim that she told people in government about her links with PPE Medpro, a consortium led by her husband, at the time it was bidding for contracts from which the firm made millions of pounds in profits.