Baroness Mone should resign from Lords, senior Tory tells Sky News

Michelle Mone should resign from the House of Lords, a elder Conservative MP has told Sky News.

Speaking to Sky News, shadiness vigor caput Claire Coutinho, said Baroness Mone of Mayfair should bash the "honourable thing" and "resign" arsenic a subordinate of the House of Lords.

Yesterday the Mone-linked steadfast PPE Medpro was ordered to wage adjacent to £122m of payer currency back to the government aft it was recovered to person breached a declaration for supplying PPE during the COVID pandemic.

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) brought the case, saying it provided 25 cardinal "faulty", non-sterile gowns.

Baroness Mone was a Tory peer, though she presently has the whip suspended, meaning she isn't a subordinate of the authoritative grouping successful the chamber.

Speaking to Wilf Frost, Ms Coutinho said: "We've taken distant the Conservative whip, she's nary longer a Conservative peer.

"And I deliberation the honourable happening to do, peculiarly successful airy of this, would beryllium to resign."

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