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The rise and fall of Michelle Mone: A self-created fairy story

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75% Informative

The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone is a two -part BBC Scotland documentary.

The rise and fall of the Baroness Mone of Mayfair begins in 1999 .

She is stripped of the Conservative whip and is on leave from the House of Lords .

She spent 25 years building her business empire and public profile through the British media.

Conservative peer Michelle Mone was appointed to the House of Lords in 2010 .

She was accused of being a 'conduit' between PPE Medpro and ministers.

The company supplied personal protective equipment to the public during the Covid pandemic.

Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman were investigated by the National Crime Agency .

The couple deny any wrongdoing and say no charges have been brought against them.

"It's a parable of excess, hubris, and then eventually nemesis," says Laura Kuenssberg .

VR Score

74

Informative language

70

Neutral language

57

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

37

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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