So Michelle Mone’s lies were to spare her family from press intrusion? Knickers to that

‘She designed, she records, an eye-catching corset to collect her OBE.’ Michelle Mone at Buckingham Palace on 25 November 2010. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

Ending a lifetime’s rewarding collaboration, Lady Michelle Mone OBE is done with the media. Or its “ridiculous obsession with every tiny detail of my personal life”, as she put it last week.

“At this rate,” the baroness complained to her public, on X, “I’m surprised the Daily Mirror hasn’t sent an email asking to know how many bras and knickers I own!”