Data also shows party accepted £150,000 from Hester days after comments about Diane Abbott condemned as racist were revealed
The donation, made by Hester’s company, the Phoenix Partnership , cements his status as the Tories’ single biggest donor.The donation, made by Hester’s company, the Phoenix Partnership , cements his status as the Tories’ single biggest donor.Frank Hester, the businessman at the centre of a row about comments condemned as racist and misogynistic, gave the Conservative party a further £5m in January, figures released by the Electoral Commission show.
Hester was at the centre of a political furore in March after the Guardian revealed he had told colleagues at his IT healthcare company in 2019 that looking at Diane Abbott made you “want to hate all black women” and had said she “should be shot”., the Conservatives accepted a further donation of £150,000 from the Phoenix Partnership. That donation had been received on 8 March, but was accepted by the party on 14 March.
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