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Michelle Mone says she won't step down as Tory peer - and accuses chancellor of 'endangering' her
Baroness Michelle Mone says she will defy calls for her to step down from the House of Lords after PPE Medpro, a company founded by her husband, was ordered to repay £122m to the government for providing faulty PPE at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The peer has faced calls to stand down from MPs across the political spectrum, including Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who earlier this week agreed with Baroness Mone's contention that the government was pursuing a "vendetta" in trying to recover improper Covid funding. "Too right we are," she said in comments at the Labour Party conference.
Money blog: Ryanair CEO warns 100,000 passengers could have flight cancelled In an extraordinary letter to the prime minister, Baroness Mone has accused Ms Reeves of endangering her and her family with her comments, citing the murders of Jo Cox and David Amess as evidence of the risks facing parliamentarians. She also alleged ministerial interference in the civil and ongoing criminal investigations of PPE Medpro, and has called for an investigation into whether ministers have "improperly influenced" the Crown Prosecution Service and the National Crime Agency.
In the letter, sent from the private office of Baroness Mone OBE and seen by Sky News, she addresses the prime minister directly, writing in a personal capacity "first as a wife, second as a mother, and lastly as a Baroness." Referring to Ms Reeves' comments, she writes: "The chancellor's deliberate use of the term "vendetta.
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