Donor told colleagues looking at Diane Abbott made you ‘want to hate all black women’ and she ‘should be shot’

Labour has written to Rishi Sunak calling for him to hand back £10m in donations from the Conservatives’ biggest ever donor, after it emerged he told colleagues that looking at Diane Abbott made you “want to hate all black women” and said the MP “should be shot”.

Anneliese Dodds, the chair of the Labour party, wrote to the prime minister calling for the money to be returned after the Guardian published details of Frank Hester’s remarks from a meeting held at his company, TPP, in 2019.

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