Kemi Badenoch has become the first government minister to label comments made by the Conservative Party's biggest donor 'racist', as fellow Tory MP Marcus Fysh called on Sunak to ‘stand up for Diane’.
Kemi Badenoch has become the first government minister to label comments made by the Conservative Party's biggest donor 'racist', as fellow Tory MP Marcus Fysh called on Sunak to ‘stand up for Diane’. Frank Hester is reported to have said that Diane Abbott 'makes you want to hate all black women', with fellow MP Marcus Fysh telling LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr that the Prime Minister should be "unapologetic" about his stance on such matters.
But the idea of linking criticism of her, to being a black woman is appalling. It’s never acceptable to conflate someone’s views with the colour of their skin."In a second post, she continued: "MPs have a difficult job balancing multiple interests - often under threats of intimidation as we saw recently in parliament."Some people make flippant comments without thinking of this context. This is why there needs to be space for forgiveness where there is contrition.
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