Manx-based Conservative peer makes admission to Laura Kuenssberg
Michelle Mone has admitted she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit from personal protective equipment sold to the UK government during the pandemic by a company led by her husband.
The Isle of Man based Conservative peer's husband's financial trusts hold around 60 million pounds of profit from the deal:
Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Baroness Mone says she and her husband, Doug Barrowman, have been made "scapegoats" for the government's wider failings over PPE.
Baroness Mone has repeatedly denied that she had profited from the deal, which she first discussed with government ministers including Michael Gove.
In the BBC interview, the couple accept that they lied to the press about their involvement with the firm over many months.
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