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Michelle Mone has admitted that she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit from personal protective equipment (PPE) sold to the UK government during the pandemic by a company led by her husband.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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After several years of denying her role in the deal between the government and the firm, PPE Medpro, the former Conservative peer has admitted in an exclusive interview that she is a beneficiary of her husband’s financial trusts, which hold around \u00a360m of profit from the deal. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But she says she and her husband, Doug Barrowman, have been made “scapegoats” for the government’s wider failings over PPE. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Baroness Mone has repeatedly denied that she had profited from the deal, which she first discussed with government ministers including Michael Gove. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But when asked by the BBC if she stands to gain she says: “If one day, if God forbid, my husband passes away before me, then I am a beneficiary, as well as his children and my children, so yes, of course.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The interview, to be broadcast this morning on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show on BBC One, is the couple’s first TV interview since it first emerged they were involved in providing PPE during the pandemic at a cost of more than \u00a3200m. They repeatedly denied any involvement. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Last week, they admitted they were linked to the deal during a film funded by the company and posted online. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the BBC interview, the couple accept that they lied to the press about their involvement with the firm over many months. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n