Biggest Tory donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’

Exclusive: Remarks by Frank Hester, who has given 10m to the party in the past year, raise questions over his workplace behaviour

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The Conservative party's biggest donor told colleagues that looking at Diane Abbott makes you want to hate all black women" and said the MP should be shot", the Guardian can reveal.

Frank Hester, who has given 10m to the Tories in the past year, said in the meeting that he did not hate all black women. But he said that seeing Abbott, who is Britain's longest-serving black MP, on TV meant you just want to hate all black women because she's there".