Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
Figures released this morning by the Electoral Commission showed the payments from Frank Hester ’s company, the Phoenix Partnership, in January.After ministers initially refused to condemn him, a No10 spokesman eventually said in a statement: “The comments allegedly made by Frank Hester were racist and wrong.”
“If Rishi Sunak had a backbone he’d have cut ties with Frank Hester months ago, returned the money and apologised properly to Diane Abbott.”Conservatives go? If the Conservatives spend this money they will be proudly funded by a man who made the most appalling racist and sexist comments.
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