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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sophie Wingate

Mone should not be in Lords after Covid PPE contract breach, says Reeves

Rachel Reeves has said Michelle Mone should not be in the House of Lords after a company linked to the Tory peer was ordered to repay almost £122 million to the Government for breaching a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Chancellor said she hopes Baroness Mone, who is on a leave of absence from the Lords, “won’t be back” in the upper chamber after she “ripped off taxpayers”.

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