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SHOCKING: Matt hancock pressured by aggressive michelle mone over covid test contract - What They Never Told You

Michelle Mone Matt Hancock Daily Mail PPE Medpro

FORMER health secretary Matt Hancock has claimed he felt pressured by Tory peer Michelle Mone’s “extraordinarily aggressive” lobbying to help a firm win a contract to supply lateral flow tests.

In his new book, Pandemic Diaries, Hancock says Mone sent him a “threatening message” complaining the company she was helping was yet to secure a deal.

Mone, 51, is currently facing questions over whether or not she benefited to the sum of £29 million from a separate company.

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