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A company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone has failed to meet a deadline to repay almost £122 million for supplying defective medical gowns to the UK Government at the height of the covid pandemic. ‌

The Department of Health and Social Care ( DHSC) successfully sued PPE Medpro, a consortium led by Mone’s husband Doug Barrowman, earlier this year. ‌

They claimed that it had breached the deal for the 25 million gowns as they were “faulty” due to not being sterile. ‌

PPE Medpro had until 4pm today to make the payment.

After the deadline passed, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said that PPE Medpro “has failed to meet the deadline to pay” and that interest on the sum was “now accruing daily”.

He said: “At a time of national crisis, PPE Medpro sold the previous govern

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