THE government is facing calls to kick Baroness Michelle Mone out of the House of Lords as the PPE scandal continues.

The Glaswegian bra tycoon accepted a peerage from David Cameron in 2015, taking her place in the Lords as Baroness Mone of Mayfair, but her admission of lying over involvement in her husband’s PPE (personal protective equipment) supply company — made to the BBC’s Laura Kuenessberg —  has now sparked calls for her removal.

Her husband Doug Barrowman’s start-up, PPE Medpro, benefited from the government’s widely criticised “VIP fast-track” scheme for approval, winning £203 million and netting the family a reported £60m in Covid pandemic profits. 

Baroness Mone’s admission has already led to a threats of court action by the New European newspaper to recover money it spent on responding to legal threats from the peer, but now opposition politicians and trade unions have called for her to resign from the Lords or be removed.

The SNP’s Kirsty Blackman MP described the House of Lords  as “undemocratic,” but she added: “While it still exists and legislates on issues affecting the general public, Michelle Mone should not be allowed to sit in it.

“If they will not remove her peerage, then they should cancel her membership to the House of Lords.”

The call was echoed by Scottish Green MSP Gillian Mackay, who said: “Baroness Mone should never have been made a peer in the first place.

“She should finally do the decent thing and resign.”

STUC general secretary Roz Foyer said: “The Michelle Mone saga will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of many who struggled through the Covid pandemic and are disgusted to see such blatant profiteering from a crisis.