Revealed: the full inside story of the Michelle Mone PPE scandal PPE Medpro and supply chain partners made as much as £100m in profits; Tory peer and husband now selling yacht and homes The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2022
Mone’s Covid lobbying ‘extraordinarily aggressive’, claims Hancock Ex-minister claims Tory peer intimated unnamed firm she was helping was being treated unfairly The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2022
PPE Medpro declines to say how it would repay millions if told to do so Government is seeking to recoup money from Michelle Mone-linked firm after gowns rejected as unusable The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2022
Gove under pressure to explain role in PPE deals for Mone-linked firm Minister’s insistence he referred all offers to civil service channels appears at odds with previously released email correspondence The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2022
Michelle Mone’s PPE denials v what we know Tory peer and husband have repeatedly distanced themselves from company given £200m in government Covid contracts The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2022
The yacht, the wedding and £29m: Michelle Mone’s life during the Covid crisis After recommending PPE Medpro for £203m government contracts, the Tory peer spoke of how business was hard but ‘rewarding’ The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2022
HMRC takes legal action against PPE firm linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone HMRC has issued a “winding up petition” to the company PPE Medpro Ltd which is linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone, citing unpaid… The National (Scotland) · Sep 2, 2022
Winding up petition issued against Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm PPE Medpro was awarded £203m contracts by UK Government after Tory peer approached Michael Gove Insider UK · Sep 2, 2022
HMRC issues winding up petition against PPE firm linked to Tory peer PPE Medpro was awarded £203m contracts by UK government after Michelle Mone approached Michael Gove The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2022
Michelle Mone’s home raided as PPE firm linked to Tory peer investigated NCA launches investigation into PPE Medpro, which secured £200m in Covid contracts The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2022
Tory peer lobbied for PPE firm months after lawyers said she had stopped, leaked emails suggest Exclusive: Michelle Mone promoted PPE Medpro for Covid contract in May 2020 – and again in October The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2022
Private emails reveal Gove’s role in Tory-linked firm’s PPE deals Exclusive: Tory peer Michelle Mone used private email addresses to contact Gove and another cabinet minister about PPE offer The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2022
UK still at risk of fraud on scale of ‘the Mafia in southern Italy’, former Tory minister warns Ministers will lose ‘fight against dirty money’ unless ‘gaping holes’ in Economic Crime Bill are plugged, Lord Agnew says The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2022
Tories accused of disregarding victims as anti-fraud minister role remains vacant Hundreds of thousands of Brits are expected to have fallen victim to fraud since Lord Agnew left his Treasury position four weeks ago. When approached by the Mirror, the Government could not confirm when the post will be filled. Daily Mirror · Feb 22, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2022 Lord Agnew says there is ‘zippo’ detail on how UK will deal with Covid fraud The anti-fraud minister who resigned over the government’s decision to write off £4.3bn says ‘I was very angry’
The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2022 Even Johnson’s own fraud minister couldn’t bear the stink of this government With £5bn lost to fraudulent Covid loan claims, Lord Agnew did a rare thing for a minister in 2022: he told the truth and quit, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2022 What’s plan B if the government can’t attract investors willing to fund Sizewell C? Development money for nuclear power station is an attempt to draw in investors that could replace China’s CGN
Daily Record · Jan 24, 2022 Boris Johnson dealt a blow as Minister quits over 'woeful' response to £5 billion loans fraud Lord Theodore Agnew, the UK government's Minster for efficiency, quit dramatically in the Lords claiming he could not defend Whitehall's 'woeful' handling of an estimated £5 billion-fraud of covid bounce back loans.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2022 Minister quits in Lords over government handling of Covid loans fraud Lord Agnew resigns in parliament after £4.3bn write-off, saying oversight of scheme had been ‘nothing less than woeful’
Evening Standard · Jan 24, 2022 Tory treasury minister Lord Agnew resigns over how Government handled fraudulent Covid business loan The resignation deals Boris Johnson yet another blow at the start of a big week for the PM
Daily Mirror · Jan 24, 2022 Tory minister dramatically QUITS at despatch box in new headache for Boris Johnson Lord Theodore Agnew swiftly grabbed his folder and left the House of Lords chamber after announcing his bombshell resignation in the Lords.