Who is Diane Abbott? MP tells ITV Tory donor Frank Hester’s remarks ‘frightening’
by William Mata and Nuray Bulbul
Mar 12, 2024
4 minutes
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Diane Abbott has sent a statement to ITV's Good Morning Britain calling for Sir Keir Starmer’s “full support” following Frank Hester’s alleged remarks about her making him hate “all black women”.
“It is frightening. I live in Hackney, I don’t drive, so I find myself, at weekends, popping on a bus or even walking places, more than most MPs,” she said.
“I am a single woman and that makes me vulnerable anyway. But to hear someone talking like this is worrying. For all of my career as an MP I have thought it important not to live in a
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