Police investigate alleged racist remarks by Frank Hester | UK news

West Yorkshire police are investigating alleged racist comments made by the Conservative party donor Frank Hester about Diane Abbott at a meeting in 2019.

The force said it was working to establish whether a crime had been committed after the businessman allegedly said that Abbott, Britain’s longest-serving black MP, made “you want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”.

The investigation was passed over from the Metropolitan police, as the meeting took place in Horsforth, Leeds.

After the remarks were reported in the Guardian, a statement from TPP, Hester’s…

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