Michelle Mone tries to clear her name but then has admitted that she lied when she denied repeatedly having been involved with a company that made millions of pounds in profits from UK government PPE deals during the pandemic.
Michelle Mone tries to clear her name
BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg interviewed the couple and it was quite enlightening.
Mone said she “wasn’t trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes” and had not told the truth about her involvement to protect her family from potential press attention.
It was then put to her that she had admitted lying to the press, reports The Guardian.
Michelle Mone replied: “That’s not a crime.”
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Mone said she regretted having done so: “We’ve done a lot of good, but if we were to say anything that we have done that we are sorry for, and that’s … We should have told the press straight up, straight away, nothing to hide … I was just protecting my family. And again, I’m sorry for that, but I wasn’t trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes. No one.”
Kuenssberg said: “You’ve admitted today that you lied to the press and you essentially lied to the public.” Mone replied: “Saying to the press, ‘I’m not involved’, to protect my family, can I just make this clear, it’s not a crime … I was protecting my family.”
Responding to Mone’s comments to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, the shadow health secretary for Labour Party, Wes Streeting, said: “Our message to those people who sought to use the pandemic to get rich quick [is]: we want our money back.”
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