Hackney MP says she feels more vulnerable after Tory donor said looking at her makes you ‘want to hate all black women’
Black Britons ‘hurt by Hester attack on Diane Abbott’Biggest Tory donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Conservative former chancellor, has said that the remarks about Diane Abbott attributed to Frank Hester were clearly racist and sexist. But he said he did not know for sure that Hester actually used those words.
Speaking on the BBC’s Politics Live, Kwarteng said:
[Those comments] are clearly racist, and they’re clearly sexist.
And I think Diane [Abbott] was right to point out that the call to violence, even in a flippant way, is really inappropriate. So they were very stupid remarks.
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