Overview

• In a letter to party leader Kemi Badenoch, Mone called her remarks "reckless" and warned they risk prejudicing a live police investigation.
• The High Court found 25 million gowns were not validated as sterile and ordered PPE Medpro to repay nearly £122 million to the government.
• A separate National Crime Agency investigation continues, with about £75 million in assets linked to Mone and Doug Barrowman frozen.
• An online petition led by Covid-19 bereaved families urging the removal of Mone’s peerage has attracted more than 60,000 signatures.
• Mone says ministers knew of her involvement as she referred PPE Medpro to the government’s VIP lane in 2020, while she denies wrongdoing.