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Tory peer Michelle Mone has been accused of calling a man of Indian heritage a 'waste of a man's white skin' in a WhatsApp exchange.
The entrepreneur, 50, allegedly sent the racist message to a financial consultant in June 2019 after a yacht crash which killed one team member.
In the exchange, seen by The Guardian, Baroness Mone reportedly refers to the man's partner as a 'nut case bird' and 'mental loony'.
Lawyers for the House of Lords member said she has no 'detailed memory' of or 'access' to the messages and denied that she is a racist.
The man made an official complaint to the Lords commissioner for standards, Martin Jelley, earlier this year but was told it would not be investigated because the exchange did not take place during the course of her parliamentary duties.
Michelle Mone (pictured on a yacht in an unknown location) 50, allegedly sent the racist message to a financial consultant in 2019 after a yacht crash which killed one team member
Lawyers for the House of Lords member, pictured with her husband Douglas Barrowman, said she has no 'detailed memory' or 'access' to the
