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Tory peer Michelle Mone has accused the Government of making her and her husband a "poster couple for the PPE scandal" and claimed it had turned down multimillion-pound offers to settle a High Court legal battle with a company she is linked with. ‌

PPE Medpro, a consortium led by Baroness Mone 's husband, businessman Doug Barrowman, is being sued by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) over allegations it breached a contract for 25 million surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic. ‌

Lawyers for the Government told a trial earlier this year that it was entitled to recover the £121 million cost of the contract, which the company opposes. ‌

Mrs Justice Cockerill will rule on the case on Wednesday, while court records showed that PPE Medpro file

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