Michelle Mone admits she stands to benefit from £60m PPE profit

Michelle Mone has admitted that she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit from personal protective equipment (PPE) sold to the UK government during the pandemic by a company led by her husband.

After several years of denying her role in the deal between the government and the firm, PPE Medpro, the former Conservative peer has admitted in an exclusive interview that she is a beneficiary of her husband’s financial trusts, which hold around £60m of profit from the deal.

But she says she and her husband, Doug Barrowman, have been made “scapegoats” for the government’s wider failings over PPE.

The gowns were never used by the NHS, and PPE Medpro faces a civil claim from the Department of Health.

The couple say the gowns were supplied in accordance with the contract.

The interview, to be broadcast this morning on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show on BBC One, is the couple’s first TV interview since it first emerged they were involved in providing PPE during the pandemic at a cost of more than £200m.

They repeatedly denied any involvement.

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