Baroness Mone hits out at Government

ORY peer Michelle Mone has accused the Government of making her and her husband a “poster couple for the PPE scandal’, and claimed it had turned down multimillion-pound offers to settle a High Court legal battle with a company she is linked with.

- CALLUM PARKE & DANNY HALPIN

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

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