3 d. ago Keir Starmer says Government will ‘go after every penny’ of cash owed by PPE Medpro

The consortium led by Baroness Michelle Mone’s husband has been ordered to repay the Government for providing “faulty” gowns during the pandemic

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3 d. ago Friedrich Merz accused of using ‘dangerous’ rhetoric on immigration

German chancellor rebuffs critics and insists anyone with daughters would agree ‘we have to change something’Critics have accused Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, of adopting “dangerous” rhetoric on immigration, after he championed “very large scale” expulsions of people from cities – and claimed that anyone with daughters would agree with him.Merz, who took office in May with a pledge to beat back the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, on Monday chastised a reporter who asked if he wished to revise his hardline remarks on migration from last week in light of widespread criticism, or apologise for them. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Carol Vorderman says she has dropped all of her 'bad' friends in thinly veiled swipe at Michelle Mone

Michelle Mone, known as 'Baroness Bra', was an ex-confidante of the former Countdown presenter and once praised Ms Vorderman for helping her get through her divorce from her first husband.

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8 d. ago PPE Medpro: Baroness Michelle Mone linked firm fails to repay £122 million to UK government by deadline

Wes Streeting says the UK Government will ‘pursue PPE Medpro with everything we’ve got’

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8 d. ago PPE firm linked to 'Baroness Bra' misses deadline to repay £145 million it owes taxpayers for defective surgical gowns

Underwear tycoon Baroness Mone has been embroiled in controversy over the defective surgical gowns supplied to the NHS by PPE Medpro at the height of the Covid pandemic.

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9 d. ago Baroness Michelle Mone moves to strike off last firm as £122m PPE dispute continues

Baroness Michelle Mone has closed down her last remaining company MGM.

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2 w. ago ‘Not words that I would have used’: Stride distances himself from Jenrick’s ‘no white faces’ comments – UK politics live

Shadow chancellor distances himself from words after Robert Jenrick accused of racism in comments he made about Handsworth Asked about the Jenrick story, Badenoch again suggests Guardian reporting is reliable.Q: Jenrick was making a distinction between white faces and brown faces. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Michelle Mone told us ‘business isn’t easy’ during Covid. How are things now, your ladyship? | Marina Hyde

After a company she was linked to was ordered to repay £122m it made from pandemic deals, the baroness has embarked on a masterclass in victimhoodBy their own accounts, there have been two Westminster-adjacent victims of inflammatory language this week. One is the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, hurt to the point of requiring smelling salts by some politically commonplace words spoken by the prime minister. And the other is legally besieged bra baroness Michelle Mone, who has always been performatively sensitive, with chaos as her rising sign.Alas, far from their shared victimhood drawing our two snowflakes closer together, in Michelle, we may have finally found the Tory from whom Nigel would not accept a defection to Reform. Which really means something, considering Britain’s would-be next prime minister currently has precisely zero peers in the House of Lords. Like the PPE she provided during the pandemic, Michelle would be deemed incredibly expensive and absolutely unusable.Marin...

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2 w. ago Michelle Mone tells Kemi Badenoch: I don't want to return to Lords as a Tory peer

Lady Mone accused the Conservative leader of using ‘inflammatory’ and ‘reckless’ language that could prejudice a police investigation into her role in the awarding of PPE contracts

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2 w. ago Thousands back call to strip Michelle Mone of peerage as she lashes out at Kemi Badenoch

A group representing Covid bereaved families said Baroness Mone's place in the House of Lords was a 'slap in the face' to those who lost loved ones in the pandemic

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2 w. ago Baroness Michelle Mone resigns as Conservative peer after PPE scandal

Michelle Mone, who has links to PPE Medpro wrote a letter to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after accusing Chancellor Rachel Reeves of using 'dangerous and inflammatory' language about her

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2 w. ago Michelle Mone says she has 'no wish to return to the Lords as a Tory peer' following calls for 'Baroness Bra' to be stripped of her peerage

There have been calls for Baroness Mone to be stripped of her peerage for her role in a Covid contract scandal.

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3 w. ago JONATHAN BROCKLEBANK: The nation's eyes have finally been opened to who Baroness Bra Michelle Mone really is... and not before time

The first time I met Michelle Mone she was in a bad way. It was lunchtime and she was still in her dressing gown as she answered her door.

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3 w. ago Michelle Mone sparks outrage with claim Labour 'vendetta' is endangering her life and cites murdered MPs Jo Cox and David Amess

Disgraced 'Baroness Bra' Michelle Mone has suggested Government criticism is putting her at risk of murder or suicide.

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3 w. ago Baroness Mone accuses Chancellor of ‘inflammatory’ language in letter to PM

Rachel Reeves is reported to have joked that the Government had a vendetta against peer Lady Mone during a fringe event at Labour’s party conference.

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3 w. ago PPE Medpro: Thousands sign petition to banish Michelle Mone from the House of Lords

PPE Medpro, which is linked to Baroness Mone, has been ordered to repay the UK Government £122 million.

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3 w. ago Tories urge Michelle Mone to hand back peerage after PPE contract breach

Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho described Baroness Michelle Mone’s actions as ‘disgraceful’.

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3 w. ago Senior Tory calls for Baroness Mone to resign over PPE scandal

The shadow energy secretary said the peer’s behaviour was ‘disgraceful’, saying the ‘honourable thing to do’ would be to resign

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3 w. ago Carol Vorderman reignites bitter feud with Michelle Mone as she issues a withering response to Baroness Bra's humiliating £122m court defeat

The pair used to be close friends but their relationship collapsed and turned into arguably Britain's bitterest celebrity feud.

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3 w. ago Downfall of Baroness Bra: How Michelle Mone's life of dazzling ostentation was built on dishonesty virtually unsurpassed in public life...

Baroness Mone has been embroiled in controversy for years over the PPE equipment her husband Doug Barrowman's firm PPE Medpro supplied to the Government at the height of the pandemic.

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