Diane Abbott has accused Sir Keir Starmer of treating her as a 'non-person' during a row over comments made about her by a leading Tory donor.
Diane Abbott has accused Sir Keir Starmer of treating her as a "non-person" during a row over comments made about her by a leading Tory donor. The Guardian reported that Frank Hester said in 2019: "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.
Read more: Trump recalls being 'grabbed' by secret service and bundled into golf cart during ‘assassination’ bidRead more: Huw Edwards spared jail after paying paedophile up to £1,500 for child abuse images“Well, you’d feel that if somebody was threatening to have you shot, you would have felt that your party would have offered you more support, given you advice on safety and security, even kind of commiserated with you. And none of that happened.
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