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Carol Vorderman mercilessly tears into Michelle Mone on HIGNFY

Carol Vorderman put Michelle Mone to task over her pandemic profiteering on Have I Got News For You.

The Tory peer took a leave of absence from the Lords late last year following allegations linking her to a firm awarded contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE).

It was alleged that the peer and her children secretly received £29 million originating from the profits of the PPE firm – claims she has denied.

Mone bagged contracts worth more than £200 million to supply equipment after she recommended it to ministers in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Appearing on HIGNFY, Vorderman said profiteering from a pandemic is “just the worst thing you can do” as she tore into the Tory peer.

She also had a few choice words for Boris Johnson, branding him a “dose of diarrhoea” amid fresh lockdown breach allegations.

“What a shower, ey? What an absolute shower!”, she said of the rumours, which involve repeated breaches at Downing Street and Chequers.

“I can’t believe they’re our government. I mean, Boris Johnson is like a dose of diarrhoea that keeps on giving.”

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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