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PPE scandal Mone has 'no wish' to return as Tory peer
The Guardian
|October 04, 2025
Michelle Mone yesterday said she had “no wish” to return to parliament as a Conservative peer after a company linked to her was ordered to repay millions of pounds for breaching a Covid-19 PPE contract.
In a letter to Kemi Badenoch, Lady Mone accused the Tory leader of using “inflammatory language” against her and suggested she was leading the party to extinction.
Mone denied any wrongdoing and said she “never received a penny” from PPE Medpro. On Wednesday, the company was ordered to pay back £122m to the UK government after it was found to have breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the pandemic.
The judge concluded that PPE Medpro had not complied with the legal and regulatory requirements to ensure the gowns, which were manufactured in China, were certified and validated as sterile.
This story is from the October 04, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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