Baroness Mone has been embroiled in controversy for years over the PPE equipment her husband Doug Barrowman's firm PPE Medpro supplied to the Government at the height of the pandemic.

The former lingerie tycoon made the claim the day before a court ruling in the government’s £140m Covid compensation claim against her husband’s company

PPE Medpro, a company linked to Baroness Mone, is being sued by the Department of Health and Social Care over an alleged contract breach