Of course Michelle Mone should be thrown out of the Lords, but others enabled her: turf them out too | Simon Jenkins

The cronyism and irresponsibility in government during the pandemic cannot go unpunished. Let the reckoning begin now

The Michelle Mone affair stinks. It shows that, under Boris Johnson, the British government was unfit for purpose, and is scarcely better today. While the Covid inquiry descends into a lawyers’ carnival, the PPE procurement scandal festers on.

In the spring of 2020, when the pandemic first broke, Wales’s first minister, Mark Drakeford, announced that there was “PPE in the system fo...