Conservative peer denies alleged racist Whatsapp message

Conservative peer and businesswoman Michelle Mone has been accused of sending a racist message via Whatsapp.

A man of Indian heritage told The Guardian that Mone said he was “a waste of a man’s white skin” in a message.

Mone was made a peer in 2015, a year after she sold an 80% stake in her lingerie business Ultimo.

A representative of the peer contacted by The Guardian newspaper said the Baroness “is 100% not a racist. Baroness Mone and her husband have built over 15 schools in Africa in the past three years.”

Her lawyers have also released a statement in which they claimed Mone had “no access” to the alleged messages and no “detailed memory of them”.

“She is not prepared to comment on the messages unless and until their authenticity has been confirmed but Baroness Mone, in any event, very strongly denies that she is a racist, a sexist or that she has a lack of respect for those persons genuinely suffering with mental health difficulties.”

The statement also claimed that is “as illogical as it is inconceivable that she could or would have made such a comment or made it with the slightest racist intent” as Lady Mone was unaware that the complainant “was anything other than white British, as his appearance is 100% white, with a cut-glass English accent”.