Guardian’s David Conn wins Paul Foot award for Michelle Mone investigation

Reporter and his team exposed the Tory peer's use of a government VIP lane' to provide PPE during the Covid pandemic

The Guardian reporter David Conn has won the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism for his report on a Tory peer's use of a government VIP lane" to provide PPE during the Covid pandemic.

Conn and the Guardian's investigations team reported last year that Michelle Mone and her children secretly received 29m originating from the profits of a PPE business that was awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to ministers.