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Nadine Dorries wades into Michelle Mone row: ‘Why was she made a peer in the first place?’

2023-12-22 00:00:00.0 独立报-英国政治原网页

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Nadine Dorries has waded into the row over Michelle Mone’s peerage, calling on her to quit the House of Lords.

The former culture secretary, who quit as an MP in protest at her own failure to secure a peerage, said the biggest question about Baroness Mone was “why she was made a peer at all”.

Baroness Mone is facing calls to be barred from the House of Lords after she admitted publicly that she stood to benefit from ￡60m in profit over a PPE contract signed at the height of the Covid crisis.

Baroness Mone’s interview has reignited the row over PPE procurement (PA)

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Baroness Mone’s interview has reignited the row over PPE procurement (PA)

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The Ultimo bra tycoon, who was made a peer by then Conservative prime minister Lord Cameron in 2015, had repeatedly denied having any links to PPE Medpro, which was awarded government contracts worth more than ￡200m to supply PPE after she recommended it to ministers.

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Tory minister Lord Callanan both called on Monday for her to quit or be barred from the Lords.

And, in her latest Daily Mail column, Ms Dorries highlighted Baroness Mone’s complaints about press intrusion into her life since she joined the upper chamber.

Ms Dorries said: “Well, Michelle, there’s an easy answer to that. Do what Lord Callanan suggested yesterday, walk right back out again. It will be a better place without you.”

Ms Dorries said she was “broken-hearted” to have missed out on a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, accusing Rishi Sunak of “cruelly” blocking her from entering the Lords.

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