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Former Tory peer Baroness Mone admitted she lied and lied again as she conceded she stands to benefit from £60million in profit from a PPE contract at the height of the pandemic.
She said she was “sorry” for publicly denying her links to the firm involved, which is being investigated by the National Crime Agency.
But a defiant Baroness Mone added: “I don’t honestly see there is a case to answer. I can’t see what we have done wrong.”
She claimed she was not trying to “pull the wool” over anyone’s eyes and that she and her husband had been made scapegoats on the issue.
In an interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, she claimed her life had been “destroyed” by allegations about their PPE profits, even though “we’ve only done one thing, which was lie to the press to say we weren’t involved”.
She said that was “not a crime” and added: “No-one deserves this.”
PPE Medpro was awarded Government contracts worth more than £200 million to supply personal protective equipment after she recommended it to ministers.