Gove: Hester remarks not extremist and warrant ‘Christian forgiveness’
by Eleni Courea Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6KB7D)
Senior Tory says donor's horrific' comment that Diane Abbott should be shot unlikely to be investigated by new taskforce
Michael Gove has said remarks made by the Conservative party's largest donor were horrific" but were unlikely to be referred to the government's new extremism taskforce.
The communities secretary said Frank Hester's comments about the veteran MP Diane Abbott were racist", but that he wouldn't want to conflate" an individual set of remarks with an extremist ideology.
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