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Baroness hits out at government
Leicester Mercury
|October 01, 2025
TORY peer Michelle Mone has accused the Government of making her and her husband a “poster couple for the PPE scandal”.
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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 had told a trial earlier this year that it was entitled to recover the £121 million cost of the contract, which the company opposes.
This story is from the October 01, 2025 edition of Leicester Mercury.
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