Reeves calls for Mone to depart from Lords

CHANCELLOR Reeves yesterday said Michelle Mone should not be in the House of Lords, after a company linked to the Tory-appointed peer was ordered to repay almost £122 million to the Government for breaching a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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CHANCELLOR Reeves yesterday said Michelle Mone should not be in the House of Lords, after a company linked to the Tory-appointed peer was ordered to repay almost £122 million to the Government for breaching a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Chancellor said she hopes Baroness Mone, who is on a leave of absence from the Lords, “won't be back” in the upper chamber, after she “ripped off taxpayers”.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sued PPE Medpro at the High Court over allegations it had breached a deal for the 25 million gowns because the items were “faulty” by not being sterile.

Lady Mone criticised the High Court judgment, calling it a win for the “establishment”, while her husband, Doug Barrowman, said it was a “travesty of justice”. The peer has claimed she is the target of a “vendetta” by the Government.