The Latest Breaking News from Frank Hester

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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