Missing millions and Michelle Mone
The News Agents
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Tory Peer Michelle Mone is to take a leave of absence from the House of Lords to 'clear her name' from the allegations she profited to the tune of more than £20 million from a PPE Covid contract. She hasn't voted in the Lords since the end of April - just days before her home was raided by the National Crime Agency. And today, Labour has urged the lower chamber, the House of Commons to vote to secure the release of secret texts, emails and documents relating to the 200 million pounds of contracts secured by the PPE Medpro company.
And we talk to Lord Ed Vaizey - former Tory Culture Minister - about clandestine conversations between the UK and Greece on how to return the Parthenon (Elgin) Sculptures (Marbles) to Athens. Is this about art? theft? history? Or is it diplomacy?
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Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | By the time you're listening to this, we will know whether papers concealing the names, documents, concealing critical information |
| 0:25.5 | about what money in the PBE contracts was handed to who, when, will be revealed to the public. |
| 0:35.3 | It's the case of Michelle Mohn, who is facing allegations that she |
| 0:39.6 | profited unfairly from money that was being given to try and get this country out of a |
| 0:45.9 | hole over its PPE shortages. And today, Labour is asking Conservative MPs to back the move which would compel ministers to come clean |
| 0:57.6 | or, in Labour's words, be complicit in a cover-up. |
| 1:02.0 | Michelle Mohn is not just anybody. She is a Conservative member of the House of Lords |
| 1:07.7 | who set up a company during COVID and a matter of weeks later it was |
| 1:13.6 | awarded a contract of 200 million pounds and now there are allegations that on an offshore |
| 1:20.0 | trust sit tens of millions of pounds profit from that deal. The pressure is on. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:32.0 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And it's Lewis. And later on we're going to be talking |
| 1:38.2 | about secret talks that are going on to return a contentious piece of cultural heritage, which is at the British |
| 1:45.8 | museum. The Elgin marbles, the Parthen and Freeze, I think how you call it, probably gives |
| 1:51.9 | some indication of what you think should happen to these incredible piece of marble that |
| 1:56.9 | was taken whenever it was 200 years ago, and what should happen to it. |
| 2:01.4 | So you've got the story of the Earl Elgin, who thought he had permission from the Ottomans |
| 2:06.7 | to come and remove the marbles from the Parthenon and bring them back to Britain. |
| 2:11.2 | But closer to home, we're going to be talking about a woman who thought she had permission |
| 2:15.9 | to gouge profits from the taxpayer for selling |
| 2:20.1 | PPE during the COVID crisis. And she made millions and millions of pounds, it seems, |
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