COMMENTS MADE BY major UK Conservative Party donor Frank Hester about Labour MP Diane Abbott sparked a political scandal last week over how Rishi Sunak’s party deals with racism. They also provided a first test for the government’s new definition of extremism. Hester, the owner of clinical software company The Phoenix Partnership and the Tories’ biggest donor, said that looking at Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”. Abbott is Britain’s first black female MP and the longest serving black member of the UK parliament. She is a member of the...
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