Baroness Michelle Mone has said she has “no wish to return to the Lords as a Conservative peer” in a letter to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.

Badenoch was among the high-profile politicians to have called for Lady Mone to relinquish her peerage, having said that “integrity and having the right people who behave above board at all times is a priority”.

On Wednesday, PPE Medpro, a company linked to Lady Mone, was ordered to pay back nearly £122m to the Government after it was found to have breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a letter to Mrs Badenoch on Friday, Lady Mone said there “seems to be a bit of amnesia” about her loss of the Conservative whip, stating that she had “removed it myself by taking a leave of absence”.

She continued: “However, you

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