After Michelle Mone admitted lying about her involvement with a £220 million contract for PPE that she arranged with the government via the illegal ‘VIP lane’ procurement system, Rishi Sunak spoke up – and opened his own can of worms.

All he did was say he couldn’t speak about the issue because it was under investigation, but that the government is taking it “incredibly seriously”.

But this seems to have triggered Lady Moan:

Later the same day, she posted the following on ‘X’:

The Good Law Project, which has been investigating the PPE procurement scandal in order to launch court proceedings of its own, chimed in with the factual information that was available to it as a result:

It seems clear that Sunak has his own questions to answer about profiteering from the Covid-19 crisis.

But this is where the story becomes interesting: the next person to leap into the ring was Lord James Bethell – with information he had previously claimed not to have:

Former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell called it a “Christmas miracle” – but it’s the context note added by other ‘X’ users that is useful here:

The note reads: “Lord Bethell has previously had a government lawyer issue a witness statement that he had lost his phone in early 2021 and lost all access to SMS and WhatsApp messages prior to that date. The message he has posted is dated 20202.”

So he should not have it, and a government lawyer issued an official statement to that effect – perhaps one of the government lawyers currently working on the accusations against Mone.

Here are a couple more ‘X’ posts, providing evidence about Bethell and his trustworthiness – or lack of it:

People have raised an obvious question about all this – but in fact there are several, which may be divided into two sets:

1. It seems clear that Bethell has regained access to his WhatsApp messages from 2020. Is he passing the machine from which he retrieved them over to the Covid inquiry? If not, why not?

2. Who is on the government team investigating Mone? Were any of them involved in the defence of Bethell over his WhatsApps? Were any involved in the procurement of PPE from PPE Medpro or Mone’s dialogue with the government via the ‘VIP lane’? If so, are there not clear conflicts of interest? Should these matters be handed over to a completely separate set of legal experts?

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