THE Tories have accepted another £5 million from Frank Hester, the disgraced health tycoon who reportedly said Diane Abbott “should be shot.”

His software firm, the Phoenix Partnership, made the payment in January, Electoral Commission data released today revealed.

It brings the total from the party’s biggest donor to £15m.

Ms Abbott tweeted: “Rishi Sunak belatedly admitted Frank Hester’s remarks that ‘I made him hate all black woman and should be shot’ were racist.

“Now it turns out Sunak accepted a further £5m from him.

“An insult to me and all black women.”

PM Rishi Sunak came under fire after reports of Mr Hester’s comments sparked a race row in March.

They said that in 2019 he said that Britain’s first black female MP made him want to “hate all black women” and “should be shot.”

The Prime Minister eventually condemned the remarks as “racist” but resisted calls to return the money, saying the tech boss’s “remorse should be accepted.”

Mr Hester admitted making “rude” comments about Ms Abbott, but claimed they had “nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin.”

Cabinet minister Mel Stride refused to say whether the Conservatives should return the donations, while a Tory spokesman said the matter is resolved.

Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds said: “Rishi Sunak has proven he is a man with no integrity.

“He is too weak to return the money donated by a man who has made violent, misogynist, and racist remarks which belong nowhere near our politics.

“If Mr Sunak had a backbone he’d have cut ties with Frank Hester months ago, returned the money and apologised properly to Diane Abbott.”

The Phoenix Partnership has been paid more than £400m by the NHS and other government bodies since 2016.

Last year it continued to rake in £800,000 a week from the taxpayer after quietly receiving £137m from the Department of Health and Social Care for apparently digitising NHS records, the Good Law Project revealed. 

Today Jo Maugham, executive director of Good Law Project, said: “To take a further £5m from Frank Hester, who has made appalling, violent, racist comments, marks the Conservative Party as without shame.

“It will unabashedly sell influence to anyone.”

The figures also showed that Labour accepted another £1.5m from major donor Dale Vince’s company Ecotricity, taking his total donations to £5m.