Kevin Hollinrake also says the party is content to spend the money given to them by Frank Hester, as calls grow for the Conservatives to return the cash to the businessman.
A Conservative minister says he does not believe his party's biggest donor is a racist, despite alleged comments he made about former Labour MP Diane Abbott - apparently saying she made him 'want to hate all black women'. Rishi Sunak took the whole of Tuesday to call out the remarks from businessman Frank Hester - first reported in the Guardian - eventually saying they were 'racist and wrong'.
In a statement on Tuesday, Ms Abbott said it was 'frightening' and 'alarming' to hear the comments allegedly made about her, especially after the murders of two MPs - Labour's Jo Cox and Conservative Sir David Amess - in recent years. 'I am a single woman and that makes me vulnerable anyway,' she added. 'But to hear someone talking like this is worrying.
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