Watch: Private Eye sketch about Michelle Mone goes viral

Private Eye took its annual ‘Year in Review’ show to the National Theatre to much acclaim last week.

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The all-star cast included Ian Hislop, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens and Harry Enfield, who ran through some of the magazine’s best-selling front pages.

Among them was the revelation that a firm set up by Conservative peer Michelle Mone had bagged £200 million in PPE contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mone, a lingerie tycoon, reportedly profited handsomely from the deal, sparking outrage in Westminster.

She was brilliantly lampooned in this clip by Hislop and Enfield:

Watch the Tweet here and the show in full below (the Michelle Mone lampoon is the first after the introduction):