Tories’ biggest donor says Diane Abbott ‘makes you want to hate all black women’, media reports

The Tories’ biggest donor told colleagues that looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women”, a media report has revealed.

Frank Hester, who has donated £10m to the Conservatives in the past year, also said the long-serving former Labour MP “should be shot”, it is claimed.

Mr Hester, founder and chief executive of The Phoenix Partnership (TPP), made the comments at a 2019 meeting at the firm’s headquarters, according to a Guardian investigation.

Discussing a female executive from another company, he reportedly said: “She’s s***. She’s the s***test person. Honestly I try not to be sexist but when I meet somebody like [the executive], I just …

“It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you’re just like I hate, you just want to hate all black women because she’s there, and I don’t hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot.

“[The executive] and Diane Abbott need to be shot. She’s stupid … If we can get [the executive] being unprofessional we can get her sacked. It’s not as good as her dying. It would be much better if she died. She’s consuming resource. She’s eating food that other people could eat. You know?”