Tag: Michelle Mone

It's alright for some, isn't it? Accused of PPE fraud, Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman have now got their sights set on the high seas.

PPE Medpro is facing a £133 million High Court claim from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

"Barrowman says how he organises his affairs isn't a matter of public debate. It is when he breaks the law", a tax expert has pointed out.

Doug Barrowman, who led the consortium PPE Medpro, also claimed the Department of Health had shown ‘lamentable failures’ when procuring supplies.

“We were forced to spend several thousand pounds of costs in legal fees responding to her mendacious threats. We want our money back."

Spoiler: It involves The National, a house in Glasgow and Albert Einstein.

The Cabinet minister has faced questions over what he knew about Baroness Mone’s links to a firm that supplied faulty PPE during the pandemic.

The Tory peer is wrong in almost every aspect of her defence, but she is right about one thing: This is a crisis of the government’s own making.

“At the end of the day, Michael Gove told me, go ahead Michelle, weigh in hen, get yourself some cash"