Baroness Michelle Mone who ended up with nearly £30 million in her bank account.
By Bill Heaney
It is absolutely right that the baroness is no longer attending the House of Lords and therefore no longer has the Conservative Whip, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the House of Commons today (Wednesday).
Labour leader Sir Keith Starmer had asked him: “How did Baroness Mone, end up with nearly £30 million of taxpayers’ money in her bank account?”
Mr Sunak told him: “Like everyone else, I was absolutely shocked to read about the allegations. It is absolutely right that the baroness is no longer attending the House of Lords and therefore no longer has the Conservative Whip.
“The one thing that we know about the Labour leader is that he is a lawyer and should know that there is a process in place. It is right that that process concludes; I hope that it is resolved promptly.
“I shall tell him what is weak, and that is not being able to stand up to people. I know that he has taken some advice from Gordon Brown lately.
“Why does he not listen to a former Minister in Gordon Brown’s Government, who just said, ‘Why does the Labour party refuse to stand up for workers in businesses like pubs and restaurants who will lose business as a result of the train strikes?’
“Labour should stand up for working people. If he is strong, that is what he should do.”
Keir Starmer hit back: “It may not seem like it, but he is supposed to be the Prime Minister. This morning, his Transport Secretary [Mark Harper] said that his flagship legislation on strikes—[Interruption]—this is what he said this morning; they might want to listen to this—is “clearly not going to…help with the industrial action” we are facing.
“He should stop grandstanding, stop sitting on his hands, get round the table and resolve these issues.
“Everyone can see what is happening here: a Tory politician got their hands on hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ money and then provided duff PPE, and the Prime Minister says that he was shocked.
“He was the Chancellor [at the time]. He signed the cheques. How much is he going to get back?”
We don’t just want the money back. The folks in this fraud should be jailed.
So where is Police Scotland in this. The police force that can hunt down covid criminals, pursue political targets like Salmond but can disregard high Tories breaking covid.
And now £200m of duff PPE, paid to a company set up a couple of weeks before the VIP Lane award, and £30 million paid into this woman’s off shore account.
No different from the drug gangs, these people walk free.