{"id":121393,"date":"2023-12-10T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=121393"},"modified":"2023-12-10T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:09:57","slug":"baroness-michelle-mone-breaks-silence-over-ppe-row-with-admission-of-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/politics\/baroness-michelle-mone-breaks-silence-over-ppe-row-with-admission-of-regrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroness Michelle Mone breaks silence over PPE row, with admission of \u2018regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baroness Michelle Mone taking ‘leave of absence’<\/h3>\n

Baroness Michelle Mone has broken a two-year silence since allegations emerged that she profited from selling unusable PPE equipment during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

In a new documentary by award-winning investigative journalist Mark Williams-Thomas, Baroness Mone has said she \u201ccan\u2019t take anymore\u201d and is preparing to \u201cstart fighting back\u201d against the allegations.<\/p>\n

Baroness Mone reportedly profited from PPE Medpro winning public contracts worth more than \u00a3200million, with the Department for Health and Social Care now being sued by the Government for \u00a3122million plus costs.<\/p>\n

Baroness Mone recommended Medpro to the DHSC via the so-called VIP lane, whereby MPs and others with connections to the Government could secure fast-tracked contracts.<\/p>\n

The Government has said the equipment provided by Medpro \u201cdid not comply with the specification in the contract\u201d.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong> DHSC accuses firm of supplying defective PPE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In November 2022, The Guardian alleged she “and her children secretly received \u00a329m originating from the profits of a PPE”.<\/p>\n

Today she has hit out at \u201call the lies\u201d surrounding her and her husband, saying she thinks \u201ceveryone feels that because we have been silent that we are guilty\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Tory peer has also said she\u2019s \u201cashamed of being a Conservative peer given what this Government has done to us\u201d, accusing her party of betraying and scapegoating her for its own failings in the PPE procurement scandal.<\/p>\n

She argues in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph that her husband\u2019s firm is only of of 51 companies facing criminal investigation after securing contracts via the VIP lane, and PPE Medpro is the only one out of 24 firms who provided gowns in single-wrapping to face litigation, even though other firms have also been accused of the same failure.<\/p>\n

An investigative documentary released this morning, featuring an interview with Baroness Mone, claims the errors around the gowns were not the fault of suppliers but the Government\u2019s, as their procurement team failed to specify that the NHS\u2019s preference was for the gowns to be double bagged.<\/p>\n

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