Michelle Mone to take leave of absence from the House of Lords

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Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone will take a leave of absence from the House of Lords with immediate effect, the PA news agency understands.

The 51-year-old, who grew up in Glasgow's East End, is at the centre of controversy over her alleged links to a firm awarded a PPE contract.

She is understood to have made £29 million after she recommended the firm PPE Medpro to Tory ministers.secretary Matt Hancock claimed he felt pressured by Mone’s “extraordinarily aggressive” lobbying to help a firm win a contract to supply lateral flow tests.

 

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