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...The contracts came after PPE Medpro was placed in the VIP “high-priority lane”, under which government officials and politicians recommended groups to supply goods during the early stages of the pandemic...
...A townhouse in London’s Belgravia owned by a company linked to the husband of Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone is on sale for £25mn, weeks after the lingerie tycoon admitted lying over her role regarding...
...HSBC froze bank accounts linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Douglas Barrowman during an investigation that examined possible corruption in securing government contracts....
...The scandal around “VIP procurement lanes”, including the contracts involving Michelle Mone and her husband, have aptly demonstrated this....
...board member Michelle Bowman....
...Britons have only a vague sense of what happened with the Covid VIP lane, and so on.” This is finally changing....
...Fed hawks, such as governor Michelle Bowman, have even suggested that borrowing costs could rise further should progress on getting inflation down stall or if it appears the current level of rates is insufficient...
...Baroness Mone had no knowledge of any ‘high priority lane’, and did not play any part in or have any knowledge of PPE Medpro being placed in such a lane....
...Baroness Michelle Mone, the Conservative peer under pressure over contracts awarded by the UK government during the coronavirus pandemic, is taking a leave of absence from the House of Lords to “clear her...
...Presented by Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill, produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon and Edwin Lane. Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco....
...UK ministers will this week face questions from the opposition Labour party about the fitness of PPE Medpro — a company linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone — to receive major public contracts and...
...— Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29mn from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm (Guardian) — Why isn’t the whole world rich? (Asterisk Mag) — Can Nigel Farage make you rich?...
...PPE Medpro received £80mn and £122mn in contracts without competitive tender following a recommendation to ministers by lingerie entrepreneur and Conservative peer Baroness Michelle Mone....
...The Windsor framework allows goods sent from Britain and staying in Northern Ireland to travel check-free through a green lane....
...government granted more than £200mn of contracts for personal protection equipment to a company called PPE Medpro in 2020, which recent reports suggest led to substantial financial gain for Tory peer Baroness Michelle...
...Robert ShrimsleyI like the analogy — the Pudding Lane Conservatism. (Overlapping audio) Miranda GreenIt’s good. I think you should go to someone with that idea....
...A company linked to the husband of Tory party peer Baroness Michelle Mone paid nearly £10mn for a townhouse in one of London’s most exclusive areas in late 2020, months after a medical goods supplier with...
...Last year in a separate legal case, the High Court found that the UK government had acted unlawfully in operating a special VIP lane for potential suppliers of personal protective equipment that had links...
...Our senior producer is Edwin Lane, and our producer is Josh Gabert-Doyon. Our executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Samantha Giovinco and Breen Turner....
...“High-speed broadband beamed to earth from space could be the answer to the connectivity issues suffered by people in premises stuck in the digital slow lane,” said digital secretary Michelle Donelan....
...A home belonging to Michelle Mone, a Conservative peer and founder of lingerie brand Ultimo, was raided this week, along with four properties connected to her and her husband in the Isle of Man, as part...
...The sex workers have in recent years been pushed to a few lonely back lanes with the arrival of student accommodation and warehouse-style restaurants....
...Capital M was just down the lane from the Great Hall of the People, as well as Zhongnanhai, the compound where the party’s actual leadership hashes out national policy and politics....
...Truss wants such checks replaced by a “green lane” for goods destined to stay in Northern Ireland, among other changes....
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