Posted on 03/13/2024 9:45:07 PM PDT by RandFan
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has resisted opposition calls to return money to a Conservative donor who reportedly said MP Diane Abbott "should be shot".
The PM said Frank Hester's alleged comments were "wrong" and "racist".
But he repeatedly told MPs Mr Hester had apologised and his "remorse should be accepted".
Mr Hester has donated more than £10m to the Tories and in November gifted Mr Sunak the use of a helicopter for a political visit, valued at £15,000.
At Prime Minister's Questions, Labour MP Marsha de Cordova asked Mr Sunak directly if he would return the helicopter donation.
Ms Abbott - who sits as an independent MP after being suspended by Labour - was in the Commons chamber but did not succeed in getting Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to call her, so she could ask a question of her own.
A spokesperson for Sir Lindsay said he had to prioritise MPs listed on the order paper and "there was not enough time to call all members who wanted to ask a question".
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who has so far resisted calls to reinstate Ms Abbott as a Labour MP - said the PM should pluck up the "courage to hand back the £10m".
"Is the prime minister proud to be bankrolled by someone using racist and misogynistic language when he says the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) 'makes you want to hate all black women?'," Sir Keir asked.
Mr Sunak replied: "The alleged comments were wrong, they were racist, he has rightly apologised for them and that remorse should be accepted.
"There is no place for racism in Britain, and the government I lead is living proof of that."
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Wonder how many donations from islamo slime your favourite U.K poli has pocketed
Ya know , I will laugh at Britain as it (I hope) is still called ? Immigration has done them in...the raghead PM is an absolute clown/muzzie mayor of London is going sharia...the public is unarmed?...How do these things happen? Yet the world laughingly screams as we Americans buy more and more weapons everyday? Why does everyone want to be here then?
It is racist to wish someone shot?
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