Baroness's moan: We've been made scapegoats

Tory peer's anger over PPI

- By Callum Parke and Danny Halpin

TORY peer Michelle Mone has accused the Government of making her and her husband a “poster couple for the PPE scandal”.

She also claims it had turned down multimillion-pound offers to settle a High Court legal battle with a company she is linked with.

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

Lawyers for the Government told a trial it was entitled to recover the £121million cost of the contract, which the company opposes.

Mrs Justice Cockerill will rule on the case today, while court records showed PPE Medpro filed a “notice of appointment to appoint an administrator” yesterday.

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