Many within Labour are jumping to support Diane Abbott, despite her having the whip removed
'My mum, 84, who has Alzheimer's is paying income tax again - it's regressive'
The businessman, who donated £10m to the Conservatives in just 2023, allegedly said the MP made him “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”., a Tory peer, went one step further, suggesting that the Conservative Party should give back the huge amount of funds that Hester has donated.
Her political career has also included numerous stints as a shadow minister under various successive cabinets, as well as a unsuccessful bid for Mayor of London in 2016.due to an controversial letter she penned in which she suggested that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people are not subject to racism “all their lives”. The letter referenced pre-civil rights America as well as apartheid South Africa, and how these different groups were treated historically.
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