Frank Hester’s ugly words about me are a reminder: all parties, including Labour, must stand against racism

Hester may be the Tories’ biggest donor, but this is not only an issue for one party as the Forde inquiry showed, says Diane Abbott MP

Hester may be the Tories’ biggest donor, but this is not only an issue for one party as the Forde inquiry showed

There have been days of discussion about the Conservative party’s biggest donor, Hester, saying in 2019: “It’s like trying not to be racist but you seeon the TV and you’re just like, I hate, you just want to hate all black women because she’s there, and I don’t hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot.”

We see this in Rishi Sunak’s attachment to the Rwanda scheme, in which would-be asylum-seekers would be dumped there. Even Tories are attacking the scheme. Ken Clarke, the former Conservative chancellor and a former Lord Chancellor,that he cannot support the legislation because overruling a Supreme Court judgment would be a “very dangerous constitutional provision”.

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