Sunak faces growing calls to return £10m donated to Tories by Frank Hester

Hester said in a 2019 meeting that seeing Britain’s longest-serving black MP on TV meant ‘you just want to hate all black women because she’s there’. Photograph: CHOGM Rwanda 2022/YouTube/PA

Rishi Sunak is facing growing calls to return the £10m donated to the party by the major donor Frank Hester after Downing Street finally described the remarks Hester made about Diane Abbott as “racist and wrong”.

Andy Street, the Tory mayor of the West Midlands, joined Labour and the Liberal Democrats in pressuring the prime minister to “think about the company” he kept, and give the money back to the party’s “biggest ever donor”.