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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Walker Political correspondent

Mone’s Covid lobbying ‘extraordinarily aggressive’, claims Hancock

Michelle Mone and Matt Hancock
Michelle Mone (left) and Matt Hancock, whose diaries are being serialised in the Daily Mail. Composite: Stefan Rousseau/WPA/Jessica Taylor/UK parliament

The Conservative peer Michelle Mone made “extraordinarily aggressive” lobbying efforts on behalf of a company bidding to supply Covid tests during the pandemic, Matt Hancock has claimed in a serialisation of his diaries.

The former health secretary claimed that Lady Mone made “wild accusations” about the procurement process, intimating that the company she was helping, which is not named, was suffering unfairly.

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