Michelle Mone scandal reveals the morals of the super-rich

‘What is it about so many powerful rich people that gives them a sense of entitlement and the feeling that they can do no wrong?’ asks Richard Ellis. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP

Reading the Guardian’s PPE Medpro exposé and watching Laura Kuenssberg’s interview of Doug Barrowman and Michelle Mone (How the Michelle Mone scandal unfolded: £200m of PPE contracts, denials and a government lawsuit, 17 December), I was reminded of Stanley Baldwin’s reported comment on the new mainly Conservative MPs elected in 1918: he thought that they were a lot of “hard-faced men” who looked as if they had done well out of the war.

In this case, it’s not the national tragedy of a war that these two profited from but a lethal pandemic; and it isn’t only Barrowman who has done well either, given the £29m in the Keristal Trust, of which Mone and her children are beneficiaries.