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Mone vows not to return to Lords as Conservative peer
October 04, 2025
|The Independent
Michelle Mone has hit out at Kemi Badenoch and said she has no wish to return to the Lords as a Conservative peer after a company linked to her was ordered to repay millions of pounds for breaching a Covid-19 PPE contract.
On Wednesday, PPE Medpro was ordered to pay back the government nearly £122m. In response, several high-profile politicians have called for Lady Mone to relinquish her seat in the Lords, with Tory leader Ms Badenoch saying she had brought “embarrassment and shame to the party”, and should have the “book thrown at her”.
In a letter to Ms Badenoch yesterday, Lady Mone hit out, saying there seemed to be “amnesia” over her loss of the Conservative whip, and that she had “removed it myself by taking a leave of absence”.
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