🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Baroness Mone tried to “bully and hector” ministers into awarding public PPE contracts worth more than £200m to a company from which she is alleged to have secretly made a fortune, Whitehall sources say.⁠ ⁠ The Conservative peer is accused of lobbying Michael Gove and Lord Agnew, another Cabinet Office minister, in a rude and abrasive way at the start of the pandemic to secure lucrative business for PPE Medpro, a supplier of face masks and medical gowns.⁠ ⁠ At one point, an exasperated Gove is said to have described her as “a right pain in the arse”.⁠ Mone, a former lingerie tycoon nicknamed “Baroness Bra”, failed to declare any financial interest in the firm, although it has transpired that an offshore trust, from which she and her children benefit, received almost £29m from the profits of the company ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio for the full exclusive