Tory peer Michelle Mone has accused the Government of making her and her husband a 'poster couple for the PPE scandal' and claimed it had turned down multimillion-pound offers to settle a High Court legal battle with a company she is linked with.
PPE Medpro, a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband, businessman Doug Barrowman, is being sued by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) over allegations it breached a contract for 25 million surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic.
Lawyers for the Government told a trial earlier this year that it was entitled to recover the £121 million cost of the contract, which the company opposes.
Mrs Justice Cockerill will hand down her ruling at a later date, while court records showed that PPE Medpro filed a 'notice of appointment to appoint an administrator' on Tuesday.
In a post on X on Tuesday, Baroness Mone claimed the case 'was never about gowns or money' and said that before the trial, PPE Medpro offered to replace the gowns and then offered a cash sum to settle the case during the trial, which was rejected.
