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Rod Liddle: UK Correspondent on the situation surrounding the comments made towards MP Diane Abbott by the Tories' biggest donor

Published: March 13, 2024, 10:34 p.m.

What would it take for a party to give back a political donation?\xa0

The British Conservative Party\u2019s biggest donor told colleagues that looking at MP Diane Abbott makes you \u201cwant to hate all black women,\u201d and said that she \u201cshould be shot\u201d.\xa0

Frank Hester has donated \xa310 million to the Tories in the past year, which PM Rishi Sunak is disinclined to return despite disavowing the comments and calling them racist.\xa0

UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking that while the Labour Party is telling them to have some spine, return the money, and make it clear that the comments are racist, they\u2019re still refusing to give any money back.\xa0

He suspects that that\u2019s as far as it will go.\xa0

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