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Both the Tories and Labour struggle to cope with fallout from Frank Hester's comments about Britain's first black woman MP

AGGRESSIVE racism by the Tory Party’s top donor rocked both sides of the political establishment today as it struggled to cope with poisonous attacks on Britain’s first black woman MP.
Premier Rishi Sunak was resisting demands to return the £10 million the Tories have received from businessman Frank Hester, who said in 2019 that Diane Abbott made him want to “hate all black women” and called for her to be shot.
And Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was put on the spot by Ms Abbott herself over growing demands to restore the parliamentary whip to her nearly a year after it was suspended.
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