Michelle Mone

2022 - 12 - 6

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Tory peer Michelle Mone to take leave of absence from House of Lords (The Guardian)

Move comes after Guardian revealed she appeared to have received millions from the profits of PPE firm.

She called it “a scandal of epic proportions”. If a peer is already on leave of absence when placed under investigation, then that can also be ended immediately. Mone has previously stated: “I completely refute these allegations. I declared all necessary interests and have done nothing wrong. Mone has previously denied having any relationship to the company. [Guardian revealed](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/revealed-tory-peer-michelle-mone-secretly-received-29m-from-vip-lane-ppe-firm) Lady Mone appeared to have received millions originating from the profits of a PPE company.

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Today's Top Stories: Michelle Mone Taking Leave From Lords ... (PoliticsHome.com)

Mone is at the centre of controversy over her alleged connections to a firm which was awarded a PPE contract during the Covid-19 pandemic. The accusations ...

Those documents need to come out and it needs to be out in the open." Transport Secretary Mark Harper said it was “incredibly disappointing” that planned industrial action had been enhanced. Mone has previously denied links to the company. He said: ”We have given instructions to doctors that where necessary they should be proactively prescribing penicillin as the best line of defence on this, and also where there is a spread in primary schools, which we know is the primary vector for this, whether they should be working with local health protection teams, and sometimes actually look at the use of antibiotics on a prophylactic basis." "It needs to be exposed now. A spokesperson for Baroness Mone said: "With immediate effect, Baroness Mone will be taking a leave of absence from the House of Lords in order to clear her name of the allegations that have been unjustly levelled against her."

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Michelle Mone steps back from House of Lords after PPE contract ... (Financial Times)

Tory peer takes leave of absence 'to clear her name' after allegations she benefited from Covid VIP procurement lanes.

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Baroness Michelle Mone takes a leave of absence from House of ... (Sky News)

PPE Medpro was granted contracts to make surgical gowns and masks during the COVID pandemic after Baroness Mone flagged the firm to ministers through a ...

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Sunak accused of weakness as Michelle Mone fights to clear her ... (BreakingNews.ie)

The British prime minister was criticised for not removing the whip from Tory peer Baroness Mone, who intends to take a leave of absence from the Lords.

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Conservative peer Michelle Mone to depart House of Lords (Economic Times)

Michelle Mone has decided to take a leave of absence from the House of Lords with immediate effect.

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Conservative peer Michelle Mone to take leave of absence from Lords (BBC News)

Baroness Mone has been linked to PPE Medpro, which won government Covid contracts.

The department is currently in mediation with PPE Medpro over what it has described as an "underperforming contract" and said it was unable to comment on specifics. However, asked in December 2020 about reports she was linked to the company, her lawyers told BBC News she "had no role or function in PPE Medpro, nor in the process by which contracts were awarded to PPE Medpro". She told MPs it appeared "tens of millions of pounds" from the money awarded to the company "ended up in offshore accounts connected to the individuals involved". Last month, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner accused the government of a "total failure of due diligence" and a "conflict of interest" in awarding the contracts to PPE Medpro. PPE Medpro said at the time that it had delivered 100% of the contract to the terms specified and that it had supplied equipment "fully in accordance with the agreed contract, which included clear terms as to technical specification and performance criteria of the products". Tory peer Michelle Mone is taking a leave of absence from the Lords "to clear her name of the allegations that have been unjustly levelled against her", her spokesman has said.

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Ex-Tory donor scathing about party's response to Michelle Mone ... (The Guardian)

Exclusive: Gareth Quarry, who now donates to Labour, says Conservatives have trashed their reputation.

A remain backer, he said he did not expect the UK would be able to rejoin the EU. One of the biggest individual donations came from Fran Perrin, the daughter of David Sainsbury, the longtime Labour donor who stopped giving under Corbyn. Quarry added that he thought the splits in his former party – over everything from Brexit to planning – would keep it out of power for at least a decade. Conservative sources pointed out that the period included the leadership election to succeed Boris Johnson, during which time both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak both received personal donations of over £400,000. [hosting a business conference](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/big-names-on-guest-list-for-labour-business-event-2dsgnk6cg) on Thursday at Canary Wharf, which will be attended by more than 400 business leaders and lobbyists. Labour last night won a vote that will force the government to publish some documents underpinning that contract.

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