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The High Court ruling has confirmed what This Site believed was obvious back in 2022: the £122 million contract awarded to PPE Medpro for sterile surgical gowns was a colossal waste of public money.
The judge, Mrs Justice Cockerill, ruled that the gowns were not fit for use, not proven to be sterile, and were never used in the NHS.
PPE Medpro the firm recommended through the government’s notorious VIP lane by Conservative peer Michelle Mone has been ordered to repay the full amount.
But there’s a catch: the company has gone into administration and declared just £666,000 in assets. We may never see our money again.
What Michelle Mone said
Lady Mone, who originally denied any involvement with the firm before admitting in 2023 that she stood to benefit to the tune of £60 million, responded to the ruling by claiming it is “a stitch-up by the Establishment”.
That will ring hollow with the public.
She initially insisted she had “no role” in PPE Medpro, only to later concede that she had misled the press and the House of Lords.
Now, faced with the collapse of a scheme from which she profited handsomely, she is doubling down.
The warnings were clear
Back in 2022, this site and others reported that the gowns had failed quality checks and could not be used.
At the time, the Department of Health and Social Care was already trying to claw back the £122 million, and I pointed out that there was no evidence the products met the agreed standards.
Today’s judgement is not just a legal decision; it is a vindication of those warnings.
A wider scandal
The PPE Medpro fiasco is only one part of the VIP lane scandal, in which firms with political connections to the Conservative government were given preferential access to billions of pounds of contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2021, the courts ruled that the VIP lane itself was unlawful.
Now, with this ruling, we see the consequences in concrete terms: vast sums paid to cronies for unusable goods, while frontline NHS staff went without proper protection. And now the money has disappeared altogether.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has said the government will “do everything possible” to recover the cash – but how?
If the money has already been siphoned off into tax havens or private wealth funds, the prospect of full recovery is slim.
Meanwhile, the National Crime Agency’s criminal inquiry into PPE Medpro, launched in 2022, is still ongoing.
How many more years will it take before we see any charges, let alone accountability?
The rot runs deep
This ruling should not be seen in isolation.
It is the first legal stamp of wrongdoing in the PPE Medpro saga – and it raises questions about every other VIP lane contract.
Who else was paid millions for goods that were never used?
Who else lied about their involvement?
And who in government signed off these deals in the first place?
The PPE scandal is not finished. But this judgement proves, beyond any reasonable doubt, that critics like Vox Political were right.
The system was rigged.
Public money was wasted.
And the people who profited are still sitting on their fortunes while the rest of us pick up the bill.
When will Mone hand over her portion of the PPE Medpro money – along with the cash the rest of her family took?
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Mone-connected firm ordered to repay £122 million for unusable PPE gowns – at last!
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The High Court ruling has confirmed what This Site believed was obvious back in 2022: the £122 million contract awarded to PPE Medpro for sterile surgical gowns was a colossal waste of public money.
The judge, Mrs Justice Cockerill, ruled that the gowns were not fit for use, not proven to be sterile, and were never used in the NHS.
PPE Medpro the firm recommended through the government’s notorious VIP lane by Conservative peer Michelle Mone has been ordered to repay the full amount.
But there’s a catch: the company has gone into administration and declared just £666,000 in assets. We may never see our money again.
What Michelle Mone said
Lady Mone, who originally denied any involvement with the firm before admitting in 2023 that she stood to benefit to the tune of £60 million, responded to the ruling by claiming it is “a stitch-up by the Establishment”.
That will ring hollow with the public.
She initially insisted she had “no role” in PPE Medpro, only to later concede that she had misled the press and the House of Lords.
Now, faced with the collapse of a scheme from which she profited handsomely, she is doubling down.
The warnings were clear
Back in 2022, this site and others reported that the gowns had failed quality checks and could not be used.
At the time, the Department of Health and Social Care was already trying to claw back the £122 million, and I pointed out that there was no evidence the products met the agreed standards.
Today’s judgement is not just a legal decision; it is a vindication of those warnings.
A wider scandal
The PPE Medpro fiasco is only one part of the VIP lane scandal, in which firms with political connections to the Conservative government were given preferential access to billions of pounds of contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2021, the courts ruled that the VIP lane itself was unlawful.
Now, with this ruling, we see the consequences in concrete terms: vast sums paid to cronies for unusable goods, while frontline NHS staff went without proper protection. And now the money has disappeared altogether.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has said the government will “do everything possible” to recover the cash – but how?
If the money has already been siphoned off into tax havens or private wealth funds, the prospect of full recovery is slim.
Meanwhile, the National Crime Agency’s criminal inquiry into PPE Medpro, launched in 2022, is still ongoing.
How many more years will it take before we see any charges, let alone accountability?
The rot runs deep
This ruling should not be seen in isolation.
It is the first legal stamp of wrongdoing in the PPE Medpro saga – and it raises questions about every other VIP lane contract.
Who else was paid millions for goods that were never used?
Who else lied about their involvement?
And who in government signed off these deals in the first place?
The PPE scandal is not finished. But this judgement proves, beyond any reasonable doubt, that critics like Vox Political were right.
The system was rigged.
Public money was wasted.
And the people who profited are still sitting on their fortunes while the rest of us pick up the bill.
When will Mone hand over her portion of the PPE Medpro money – along with the cash the rest of her family took?
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