Sunak urges acceptance of top Conservative donor’s apology amid race row
LONDON: British prime minister Rishi Sunak said he accepted the remorse of his Conservative Party’s top donor today after he was embroiled in a row over racism, while a minister suggested that the party might accept more money from him in the future.
Frank Hester, who has given £10 million to the Conservatives in the last year, has issued an apology after the Guardian newspaper reported he said that looking at the country’s longest-serving black lawmaker made him “want to hate all black women”, and that she “should be shot”.
Hester said the 2019 comments about Diane Abbott were rude but had nothing to do with her gender or her skin colour.
After originally declining to pass judgment on the comments, Sunak’s spokesman eventually called them “racist and wrong”, and opposition parties said the Conservatives should return Hester’s…
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