A NEW documentary looking at how Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman enriched themselves using Government contracts during the Covid pandemic is set to air on Monday.
The Channel 5 documentary, The Michelle Mone Scandal: Where Did Our Money Go?, will air accusations that Mone lied throughout her career, as well as that she used political connections to lobby for “VIP lane” contacts from the Tory government.
It comes ahead of a two-part BBC documentary series looking into Mone and Barrowman which was announced in December and will air later this year.
A separate documentary, funded by Barrowman’s company PPE Medpro, has been promoted by Mone and is on YouTube.
How to watch the Channel 5 documentary on Michelle Mone?
The documentary The Michelle Mone Scandal: Where Did Our Money Go? is set to be shown at 9pm on Monday, January 20 on Channel 5. It is set to finish at 10pm.
The documentary will then be available on Channel 5’s My5 online service.
What is the background of the Michelle Mone “scandal”?
Michelle Mone, who was given a seat in the House of Lords by former Tory prime minister David Cameron, came into the public eye after finding success with her lingerie brand Ultimo.
During the Covid pandemic, she used her personal contacts within the Tory government to lobby for medical equipment contracts for a firm called PPE Medpro.
She repeatedly denied having any connection to the company, which was awarded UK Government contracts worth more than £200 million to supply personal protective equipment.
The Tory government launched legal action to recoup some of the funding, claiming the equipment supplied was not up to scratch. The firm is defending the legal action.
The company is also being investigated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) into suspected criminal offences in the procurement of PPE contracts.
As pressure grew amid the NCA probe, Mone gave a BBC interview in which she admitted having lied.
In January 2024, the Financial Times reported that about £75 million of the couple’s assets, including a townhouse in Belgravia and an estate on the Isle of Man, have either been frozen or restrained following an application by the Crown Prosecution Service.
A spokesperson for Mone and Barrowman said: “Faced with mounting public criticism of its Covid-19 response, and with individual ministers finding themselves personally implicated in arrangements with unsuitable suppliers, the previous government, via the Department for Health and Social Care, enlisted the resources and draconian criminal justice powers of the National Crime Agency to mount a full-on legal attack against Baroness Mone and Mr Barrowman.”
