Michelle Mone is a symptom of a much deeper disease corrupting British politics

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It’s a cliche that ‘the cover-up is worse than the crime’ but in the case of Michelle Mone the old saw seems pretty accurate.

Mone spent three years denying that she or her husband Doug Barrowman had anything to do with PPE Medpro, a company that, weeks after being set up, was given more than £200m worth of contracts to supply personal protective equipme…