Labour has written to Rishi Sunak calling for him to hand back £10m in donations from the Conservatives’ biggest ever donor, after it emerged he told colleagues that looking at Diane Abbott made you “want to hate all black women” and said the MP “should be shot”.
Anneliese Dodds, the chair of the Labour party, wrote to the prime minister calling for the money to be returned after the Guardian published details of Frank Hester’s remarks from a meeting held at his company, TPP, in 2019.
In a new statement on Monday night, a spokesperson for Hester said he “accepts that he was rude about Diane Abbott in a private meeting several years ago but his criticism had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin.
In parliament on Monday, Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said Hester had used “utterly revolting, racist and inciteful language”, adding that “it has no place in our politics and public life”.
In her letter to the prime minister, Dodds said the Conservatives should hand back the £10m as well as the value of a helicopter ride to the tune of £15,900 provided to Sunak by Hester.
Sir Bob Neill, the Conservative MP and chair of the justice committee, told Times Radio: “It’s a stupid and offensive thing to say … That’s not the sort of language that you should use about anyone that, frankly.”
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Labour has written to Rishi Sunak calling for him to hand back £10m in donations from the Conservatives’ biggest ever donor, after it emerged he told colleagues that looking at Diane Abbott made you “want to hate all black women” and said the MP “should be shot”.
Anneliese Dodds, the chair of the Labour party, wrote to the prime minister calling for the money to be returned after the Guardian published details of Frank Hester’s remarks from a meeting held at his company, TPP, in 2019.
In a new statement on Monday night, a spokesperson for Hester said he “accepts that he was rude about Diane Abbott in a private meeting several years ago but his criticism had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin.
In parliament on Monday, Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said Hester had used “utterly revolting, racist and inciteful language”, adding that “it has no place in our politics and public life”.
In her letter to the prime minister, Dodds said the Conservatives should hand back the £10m as well as the value of a helicopter ride to the tune of £15,900 provided to Sunak by Hester.
Sir Bob Neill, the Conservative MP and chair of the justice committee, told Times Radio: “It’s a stupid and offensive thing to say … That’s not the sort of language that you should use about anyone that, frankly.”
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