Politics

Watch: Private Eye sketch about Michelle Mone goes viral

Private Eye took its annual ‘Year in Review’ show to the National Theatre to much acclaim last week.

The all-star cast included Ian Hislop, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens and Harry Enfield, who ran through some of the magazine’s best-selling front pages.

Among them was the revelation that a firm set up by Conservative peer Michelle Mone had bagged £200 million in PPE contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mone, a lingerie tycoon, reportedly profited handsomely from the deal, sparking outrage in Westminster.

She was brilliantly lampooned in this clip by Hislop and Enfield:

Watch the show in full below:

Related: Ukraine will restore ‘complete territorial integrity by spring 2023’

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Published by