By Lucy Ashton
Responding to the BBC’s interview with Michelle Mone in which she admits lying to the press over profiting from a government PPE contract, Liberal Democrat Scottish Affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said:
“It is jaw-dropping that Michelle Mone has admitted lying to the country over this shameful PPE scandal and is now trying to play the victim card. She repeatedly denied she would make money from this contract, now it emerges she’s set to profit to the tune of millions.
“Rishi Sunak was too weak to withdraw the Conservative whip from Baroness Mone when this scandal emerged last year. He must finally do the right thing now. The Prime Minister should kick Michelle Mone out of the Conservative Party and withdraw the whip if she has the gall to return to the Lords.
“This shameful saga is an insult to the British public and shows why we need to bring an end to this Conservative cronyism and sleaze at the next election.”
Kick her out of the House of Lords.
She should be put in jail. £60 million pounds of our money, our taxes, and squirreled away into an offshore tax haven is absolutely outrageous. But she’s committed no crime. Tell that to the people of Dumbarton as their income tax goes up, as rates go up, as they struggle to heat their homes.
A fair day’s pay says her husband and Mone says the same.
These people are utterly above the law, the law lets them do as they please, and the hapless lumpen masses just accept it.