Labour split over returning whip to Diane Abbott
Angela Rayner said she would like to see Ms Abbott back as a Labour MP.
Angela Rayner said she would like to see Ms Abbott back as a Labour MP.
The deputy party leader said she shared the ‘frustration’ that independent inquiries into Labour members were taking a long time.
It takes the total donation from Hester in the past year to £15 million, plus the use of a chopper for a political visit in November.
Diane Abbott said the Conservatives would look to ‘play the race card… ruthlessly’ at the next election, but criticised her own party as well.
The MP for Middlesbrough was suspended from the party last October last year after using the phrase during a pro-Palestine rally.
"I don't know whose interests the Speaker thinks he is serving. But it is not the interests of the Commons or democracy", Abbott said.
Kevin Hollinrake indicated the party would accept more cash from businessman Frank Hester.
Tory donor Frank Hester is alleged to have said that Diane Abbott, Britain’s longest-serving black MP, made him ‘want to hate all black women’.
Frank Hester allegedly said Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”.
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