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BIZARRE: 5 - What They Never Told You

The Guardian view on Tory donor race row: return the money, end the relationship

Editorial: Prominent Conservatives have said a big backer’s comments were racist and sexist. It’s hard to disagree

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The racism Diane Abbott suffers is awful — the gaslighting that follows is worse

It is an image I will not forget in a hurry. That of 70-year-old Diane Abbott, Britain’s first and longest-serving black MP, rising to her feet in the House of Commons no fewer than 46 times to speak about the violent racism levelled against her, only to be routinely, and…

Evening Standard

Diane Abbott says Tory donor Frank Hester’s remarks ‘frightening’

MP says ‘to hear someone talking like this is worrying’ after Hester’s comments

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Who is Frank Hester and what did he say about MP Diane Abbott?

The Tories are under huge pressure to return £10m from their ‘biggest ever donor’ amid the fallout from his alleged remarks

Evening Standard

Diane Abbott says it is ‘frightening’ to hear what Tory donor Frank Hester said about her – as it happened

Hackney MP says she feels more vulnerable after Tory donor said looking at her makes you ‘want to hate all black women’

The Guardian - UK

Black Britons feel hurt by Hester attack on Diane Abbott, says ex-Tory adviser

Samuel Kasumu responds to party donor telling colleagues that looking at Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’

The Guardian - UK

Tories slam party's response to donor who reportedly said Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women'

Frank Hester has admitted making ‘rude’ comments about the politician but said they had ‘nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin’

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Labour calls on Sunak to return Frank Hester’s £10m Tory donation

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

The Guardian - UK

No yawning or fingerprints on doors: the strict rules at Tory donor’s firm

Ex-staff at Frank Hester’s company TPP say rules were unusual but perks include paid bar tabs and sailing holidays

The Guardian - UK

Biggest Tory donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’

Exclusive: Remarks by Frank Hester, who has given £10m to the party in the past year, raise questions over his workplace behaviour

The Guardian - UK

Frank Hester: computer programmer who made fortune from public sector contracts

Software company Hester built from scratch has won more than £400m of NHS and prison contracts in the last eight years

The Guardian - UK

Donations to UK political parties nearly doubled to £93m in 2023

Tories and Labour boosted by mega-donors, and fundraising gap between two parties appears to be narrowing

The Guardian - UK

Tory donor’s firm paid for Sunak’s £16,000 one-way helicopter trip to Leeds

Journey was paid for by The Phoenix Partnership, which has won £135m of contracts from NHS and government

The Guardian - UK

One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts

Exclusive: Frank Hester, who gave Rishi Sunak’s party £5m this summer, is thought to have made huge sums from DHSC deals

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The Independent UK

Tories boosted by £5m donation from health entrepreneur amid dwindling pool of supporters

Frank Hester gives massive sum, as Sunak increasingly reliant on small group of mega-wealthy backers

The Guardian - UK

Healthcare technology entrepreneur ‘donates £5m to Conservatives’

Electoral Commission expected to disclose seven-figure sum donated by Frank Hester OBE in its quarterly data

The Independent UK

Tories receive £5 million election war-chest boost from health entrepreneur

It is the second £5 million sum to be given to the Conservative Party by an individual this year.

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