Downing Road takes the case of Michelle Mone ‘extremely severely’, Rishi Sunak has stated, after the previous Tory peer admitted she had lied when denying involvement with an organization that gained UK authorities offers to supply private protecting tools through the Covid pandemic. Guardian investigations discovered Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, had been concerned with PPE Medpro, which was awarded contracts price £203m in Could and June 2020 after she approached ministers, together with Michael Gove, with a suggestion to produce tools