Frank Hester, who has given £10m to the Conservatives, is reported to have said Diane Abbott made him ‘want to hate all black women’
Frank Hester, who has given £10m to the Conservatives, is reported to have said Diane Abbott made him ‘want to hate all black women’British prime minister Rishi Sunak during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London on Wednesday. Photograph: Maria Unger/PAsaid on Wednesday he accepted the remorse of his Conservative party’s top donor after he was embroiled in a row over racism, while a minister suggested that the party might accept more money from him in the future.
Mr Hester said the 2019 comments about Diane Abbott were rude but had nothing to do with her gender nor her skin colour. Asked if the Conservatives would accept another £10 million from Mr Hester, Mr Hollinrake told BBC TV: “On the basis that we don’t believe Mr Hester is a racist, yes.”The controversy has plunged the Conservatives into another internal conflict over racism. The party’s former deputy chairman, Lee Anderson, was suspended after he refused to apologise for saying London’s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, was under the control of Islamists.
“Two weeks ago he marched them out ... to defend Islamophobia ... and yesterday he sent them out to play down racism and misogyny until he was forced to change course,” said Mr Starmer.
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