PPE Medpro, a agency linked to the bra tycoon, was ordered by a choose to pay again £122million after it was discovered to have breached a contract to produce surgical robes

Countdown legend Carol Vorderman has taken a swipe at ex-pal Baroness Michelle Mone for her position in a Covid contract scandal.

PPE Medpro, a agency linked to the bra tycoon, was ordered by a choose to pay again £122million after it was discovered to have breached a contract to produce surgical robes.

And Carol, 64, caught the boot in by posting a screenshot of the information on her Instagram with the caption: “Sure eventually.”

Calling for the scandal-hit lingerie boss to be booted out of the Home of Lords, she added: “I’m so glad I fought towards PPE corruption however the struggle goes on.” PPE Medpro, a consortium led by the peer’s hubby Doug Barrowman, was awarded contracts by the Tories to produce gear after she advisable it to ministers.

The Excessive Court docket dominated on Wednesday the robes “weren’t, contractually talking, sterile, or correctly validated as being sterile” and couldn’t be used within the NHS. And shadow power secretary Claire Coutinho described Baroness Mone, 53, as “disgraceful” and known as for her to resign.

The Tory MP mentioned: “I feel it was disgraceful what she’s performed. It was additionally a Conservative authorities who began the lawsuit. The lawsuit, which implies that she’s needed to repay this cash, began in, I feel it was 2022, when Rishi Sunak was prime minister. We’ve taken away the Conservative whip, she’s not a Conservative peer, and I feel the honourable factor to do, notably in mild of this, could be to resign.”

Elsewhere, The Covid-19 Bereaved Households for Justice marketing campaign described the tycoon’s place within the Home of Lords as “a slap within the face” to those that misplaced family members through the pandemic. It has launched a petition on Change.org which requires her to be stripped of her peerage which has been backed by greater than 6,500 individuals.

Baroness Mone, who presently has the Tory whip suspended, wrote on X that the “judgment towards PPE Medpro is stunning however all too predictable”. She mentioned: “It’s nothing lower than an Institution win for the Authorities in a case that was too huge for them to lose.”

And her husband Mr Barrowman mentioned it was a “travesty of justice”.

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