Millionaire Tory donor accused of saying former Labour MP Diane Abbott 'should ... trends now

The Tories largest ever individual donor has been accused of a racist rant in which he suggested black MP Diane Abbott should be shot.

Frank Hester, who joined the Prime Minister and Elon Musk at the Bletchley Park AI Summit in November, is accused by a newspaper of complaining that seeing the former Labour frontbencher on TV made him  'want to hate all black women'.

Mr Hester, who has given the Tories £10million in the past year, is said to have made the remark to staff at his medical software firm  the Phoenix Partnership (TPP), which has Government contracts worth more than £135million. The company's lawyers told the Guardian his comments had been distorted and taken out of context.

According to the Guardian, Mr Hester made the remarks in 2019 when complaining about an unnamed business executive, who he branded 'the sh*ttest person'.

'It's like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you're just like I hate, you just want to hate all black women because she's there, and I don't hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot,' the paper reported him as saying.

'[The executive] and Diane Abbott need to be shot. She's stupid … If we can get [the executive] being unprofessional we can get her sacked. It's not as good as her dying. It would be much better if she died. She's consuming resource. She's eating food that other people could eat. You know?'

Mr Hester's lawyers told the paper TPP was a diverse workplace and his comments 'were not a true or accurate characterisation of the company or Hester.'

Ms Abbott, 70, was the first black woman elected to the Commons and remains the longest-serving black MP.

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