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welcome to Coffey House Shops, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

Today Laura Koonsburg's show was dominated by her interview with Baroness Michelle Moane and her husband Doug Barriman who have admitted their direct involvement

with PPE Med Pro, a company awarded a huge PPE contract during the pandemic, despite years claiming the country.

The couple said they made a 60 million profit from the deal, and Moan admitted to being a beneficiary

of financial trusts where the money is held. There is an ongoing criminal investigation, but Moen suggested

they had been made scapegoats. Barramon even implied a government official had asked for a bribe

in exchange for the investigation to be called off.

Moen claimed all they had done wrong was lie to the press.

Making a profit of 60 million pounds during a national emergency like a pandemic.

Sounds not just like an enormous amount of cash but also a bit like profiteering.

Well, PPP prices during the pandemic went up five times and a lot of our

competitors were charging, as I said before, on the gowns front between 7 and 12

pounds a gown.

At the very start of the pandemic the government paid actually numbers were in excess of that.

We cut out most of the middle people and we'd help direct with the manufacturer.

So you say you saved the government a lot of money but you also made a lot of money.

There's nothing wrong with making money but that is what happened, right?

We made a good return for the risk involved and the risk was considerable.

But when it became public that you were connected to the company, you both denied it. Why? I wasn't trying to pull the wheel over anyone's eyes and I regret and I'm sorry for not seeing straight out yes I am involved because DHS, the NHS, the cabinet office, they all knew of my

involvement.

But I didn't want the press intrusion for my family. My family I've gone through hell with the media

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