Michelle Mone the myth – was she ever the shrewd businesswoman she said she was?

Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Swipe for next article

As the life peer’s firm is ordered to pay back over £100m for mis-selling PPE equipment to the government during Covid, Guy Walters takes a close look at the company records and wonders whether the lingerie tycoon was ever as successful as we were led to believe

T

his week has been an emphatically bad one for Baroness Mone of Mayfair in the City of London. On Wednesday, a High Court judge ordered that PPE MedPro, a firm controlled by her and her husband Doug Barrowman, should repay at least £122m for supplying 25 million surgical gowns that did not meet rules on producing sterile equipment.