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Michelle Mone has been branded "disgraceful" by her fellow Conservatives as pressure mounts on the disgraced peer to quit the Lords.
The former lingerie saleswoman was made a Baroness by then prime minister David Cameron in 2015 despite several prominent Scots businesspeople voicing their reservations over the appointment.
The decision, pushed by the UK Government in the wake of the 2014 independence referendum, was later described as being proof that Cameron had "completely lost the plot".
Mone, who grew up in Glasgow, has become politically toxic after a company linked to her was ordered yesterday to repay £122 million to the taxpayer for breaching a Covid-19 PPE contract signed at the height of the pandemic.
Tory MP Claire Coutinho described the