Baroness Michelle Mone in the House of Lords in June 2017
LABOUR will feel they have PM Rishi Sunak on the ropes over his delayed-reaction decision to withdraw the Tory whip from Baroness Mone.
The Conservatives may have hoped they had moved on from Covid after ousting Boris Johnson — but the wounds still fester and even had Sunak acted faster he could not stop this scandal running.
Baroness Mone denounces a “witch hunt” against her, denying she benefited to the tune of millions from contracts awarded to a company she recommended (PPE Medpro). Her decision to take a “leave of absence” from the House of Lords is supposedly to clear her name.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
STEPHEN ARNELL looks at some of the notorious political corruption cases from British history
