Conservative peer Michelle Mone to take leave of absence from Lords

Conservative peer Michelle Mone to take leave of absence from Lords

Dec 07, 2022 by BBC

Key Facts

  • Image source, PA Media Image caption, Michelle Mone became a peer in 2015 Tory peer Michelle Mone is to request a leave of absence from the Lords "to clear her name", amid allegations she benefitted from a company she recommended for a Covid contract.
  • Baroness Mone has been linked to PPE Medpro, which won government contracts during the pandemic.
  • Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was "too weak" to remove the whip from Baroness Mone - which would mean she was expelled from the parliamentary party - and had left her "to finally read the writing on the wall".
  • Image source, Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament Image caption, Labour's Angela Rayner has been critical of how contracts were awarded during the pandemic Between May and June 2020, PPE Medpro was awarded two government contracts worth £203m to supply masks and medical gowns.

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