BARONESS Michelle Mone said she has “no wish to return to the Lords as a Conservative peer” in a letter to Kemi Badenoch.
Writing in response to the Tory leader calling for her to resign from the House of Lords, the bra tycoon said she was “shocked to the core”.
Doug Barrowman and Baroness Michelle Mone in 2019
Badenoch criticised Mone and accused her of bringing shame on the Conservative Party.
“Where people do wrong, they should be punished,” she said.
In response, Mone wrote in a scathing letter: “You will be pleased to hear that once I do clear my name, I have no wish to return to the
Lords as a Conservative Peer; that’s assuming there still is a Conservative Party before the next General Election.”
Mone is facing financial ruin after her husband’s company was ordered to pay the Government millions in damages .
Chancellor called for Mone, who lobbied for husband Doug Barrowman’s firm to get highly lucrative contracts, to
She also hailed the verdict, adding: “We want our money back. We are getting our money back.”
However it emerged PPE Medpro has put itself into administration with assets of around £660,000.
The High Court ruled that the firm failed to prove whether its surgical gowns — destined for workers in the grip of a terrifying — had undergone a validated sterilisation process.
Mone, 53, later hit out , claiming she and Barrowman, 60, were victims of an establishment stitch-up who have been “scapegoated over the PPE scandal”.
The awarded a £122million gowns contract to PPE Medpro after Mone first approached the then Cabinet Office minister in May 2020.
The company was also given another contract worth more than £80million to supply — both via a so-called “VIP lane”.
Some 25 million gowns, made in , were delivered by PPE Medpro in August and October 2020.
But just before that year, the Government claimed that tests had found “a number of the gowns were not sterile”.
It led to legal action, with Medpro arguing it had complied with the contract and the gowns were sterile.
Paul Stanley KC, representing the Government, told the High Court trial in June that of 140 gowns tested, 103 failed.
Mone, who with her husband did not give evidence, was said to have been “active” in discussions which led to the awarding of the contracts.
When the scandal first broke, she initially denied gaining any financial advantage.
Then, in a car-crash BBC interview in December 2023, she admitted that “of course” she would benefit.
It was later reported that Barrowman and Mone — who last year sold their £6.8million yacht, called Lady M — had received £65million.
PPE Medpro recently announced it had net assets of just £666,025.
It applied for administrators to take over on Tuesday, the day before the High Court verdict.
A long-running into PPE Medpro by the National Crime Agency is still ongoing, along with a House of Lords inquiry.
The Government doled out £10billion of contracts for faulty PPE as the country was crippled by the pandemic.
A “hit squad” of investigators has been brought in by the Government to recover funds unlawfully lost.
Mone, who received an OBE in 2010 for her contribution to business, is currently on a leave of absence from the House of Lords, where she was made a life peer in 2015.
