Baroness hits out at government

TORY peer Michelle Mone has accused the government of making her and her husband a 'poster couple for the PPE scandal'.

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PPE Medpro, a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband, the businessman Doug Barrowman, is being sued by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) over allegations it had breached a contract for 25 million surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lawyers for the government had told a trial earlier this year that it was entitled to recover the £121million cost of the contract, which the company opposes.