'STILL IN LORDS IS A SLAP IN THE FACE'

Covid bereavement group piles pressure on scandal-hit Mone

- BY LIZZY BUCHAN

MORE than 67,000 people have signed a petition calling for Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and kicked out of the House of Lords.

With Mone under pressure over her links to scandal-hit PPE Medpro, Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK said: "Michelle Mone's place in the Lords is a slap in the face to every family who lost someone during the pandemic.

"For bereaved families, her presence in Parliament insults the memory of those who died and exposes the lack of accountability for profiteering and failures that cost lives."

It would require an act of Parliament to remove her peerage.

She could choose to resign from Parliament but has so far refused to do so.