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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 · Mar 12, 2024

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 · Mar 12, 2024

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

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2024

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 · Mar 12, 2024

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 · Mar 11, 2024

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 · Mar 11, 2024

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 · Mar 11, 2024

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 · Mar 7, 2024

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 · Dec 15, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2023