Susanna Reid’s pitch perfect response to that excruciating Michelle Mone interview surely spoke for the nation

John Plunkett. Updated December 18th, 2023

Michelle Mone is pretty much the only story on Twitter right now after the former Conservative peer admitted that she lied when she denied repeatedly having been involved with a company that made millions of pounds in profits from UK government PPE deals during the pandemic.

Talking to the BBC’s Laura Kuennsberg, Mone said she ‘wasn’t trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes’ and had not told the truth about her involvement to protect her family from press attention. When told she had admitted lying to the press, Mone replied: “That’s not a crime.”

Guardian investigations found Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, were involved with the company PPE Medpro, which was awarded contracts worth £203m after she approached ministers, including Michael Gove, with an offer to supply PPE at the height of the pandemic.

The Kuennsberg interview threw up no end of eye-opening moments, like this one.

“I can’t see what we’ve done wrong”

Baroness Michelle Mone tells #BBCLauraK she does not believe she committed any wrongdoing and says that lying to the press about her involvement in a PPE contract “is not a crime”https://t.co/ZJkI5ROdgF pic.twitter.com/36uso6R3om

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 17, 2023

And this one.

Listen to Michelle Mone try to explain that her *family* has not made tens of millions of pounds. It’s just her *husband* who has made tens of millions of pounds pic.twitter.com/KfqPOUVsz2

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) December 17, 2023

And this one!

The only 16 seconds you need to see from the Mone interview… pic.twitter.com/rvouQxp3Uh

— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) December 17, 2023

And we mention it because Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid was asked for her response on the Kuennsberg show and she surely spoke for the nation.

Susanna Reid: Michelle Mone “thinks that she is the victim… nobody wants to see anyone profiteering from this crisis.”#bbclaurak #TrevorPhillips pic.twitter.com/EZ5JkATFYN

— Haggis_UK (@Haggis_UK) December 17, 2023

And here’s just a flavour of the love people had for that.

Well said @susannareid100

….Michelle Mone on #bbclaurak… https://t.co/ZzKYAwuEX6

— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) December 17, 2023

Susanna Reid perfectly summarising the Mone interview #bbclaurak

— J 2 D #GTTO Shut Up Gregg! (@Johnny_Two_Dogs) December 17, 2023

Love @susannareid100 so much. Perfectly put https://t.co/fyCKRAwGf3

— Tom Jamieson (@jamiesont) December 17, 2023

Susanna Reid, so clear and so right to the point https://t.co/mv5PpmsYXC

— ruth allum (@mgtruth) December 17, 2023

Susanna Reid on Mone: “She’s thinks she’s the victim because of the press intrusion. It’s utterly remarkable that she doesn’t see how sensitive this issue is. PPE was so desperately needed that business people thought they could make millions out of that desperation”#bbclaurak pic.twitter.com/T34NW6pJXn

— David (@Zero_4) December 17, 2023

Last word to @susannareid100.

This interview was @bbclaurak at her best – asking the right questions and allowing Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman time to answer. And those answers are jaw-dropping. https://t.co/G9wpYa9Khr

— Susanna Reid (@susannareid100) December 17, 2023

Source @Haggis_UK