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Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone is taking a leave of absence from the House of Lords with immediate effect.alleged links to a firm awarded £200m of PPE contractssaid in a statement that she will take a break from the upper house of parliament to"clear her name" over the allegations.
The leave of absence means Baroness Mone will not attend sittings of the House, vote on any proceedings and will not be able to claim any allowance. "The Clerk will take a decision once he has received the formal request and after consulting with others as required."Responding to Ms Mone's leave of absence, Labour's deputy leader"Ministers must now set out clear timelines on when, where, and how this information will be released. They can't keep taking the public for fools by refusing to come clean on what they knew about this dodgy deal.
She alleged that the company was awarded a £122m contract for gowns that"could not be used" and that £700,000 of"taxpayers' money" a day is now being wasted on storing the unusable PPE.The Liberal Democrats' deputy leader Daisy Cooper added:"Sunak needs to suspend the whip for Mone and commit on public record that he will personally ensure that everyone in his party fully complies with any investigation.
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