Will the Tories return Hester’s £10 million?

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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At Prime Minister’s Questions today Rishi Sunak refused to commit to returning the £10 million donor Frank Hester gave to the Conservative party. Hester allegedly said that Diane Abbott made him ‘hate all black women.’ Sunak now says that Hester’s alleged comments were ‘racist’ and ‘wrong’, after a spokesperson initially only described them as ‘unacceptable’. Will the Tory position change again?

Max Jeffery speaks to Katy Balls and the Financial Times’s Stephen Bush.

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0:19.6	Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots,
0:21.7	the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.
0:24.3	I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and by Stephen Bush of the Financial
0:28.8	Times.
0:30.2	It was
0:34.0	proudly,
0:35.0	proudly bankrolled by someone using racist and misogynist language
0:39.0	when he says the member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
0:42.0	makes you want to hate all black women.
0:46.8	Starmel was talking about comments made by Tory donor Frank Hester who allegedly said that
0:50.8	Dyanne Abbott made him want to hate all black women.
0:54.0	Wisci Sunak said that the comments were racist and wrong.
0:57.6	Katie, this wasn't an easy session for the Prime Minister, was it?
1:01.2	It was a really difficult strange.
1:02.3	You have to take into account the events of this week,
1:05.4	which began with a guardian story on the donor in question,
1:09.7	Hester, and the fact that he had comments unearthed about Diane Abbott about what he made
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