Michelle Mone Faces NCA Probe After £122M Ruling

A High Court judge ordered PPE Medpro, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone’s husband, to repay nearly £122m after finding the firm breached a contract to supply sterile surgical gowns that were later destroyed because they could not be certified. Mone, who used the government’s VIP fast lane to recommend the firm, has denied wrongdoing, said she “never received a penny,” and wrote to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch saying she has “no wish” to return to the House of Lords as a Conservative peer; she has taken a leave of absence and lost the Conservative whip. Senior politicians including Badenoch and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, along with the SNP, have called for her to resign or be removed, and an online petition drew roughly 60,000 signatures in 24 hours. A separate National Crime Agency criminal investigation is ongoing, with about £75m in assets frozen and reports that a family trust benefiting her children received roughly £29m—payments the couple say have been misrepresented.