IT’S AN ELECTION YEAR, so political finance is back in the headlines. We have had the tawdry tale of Yorkshireman Frank Hester, the £10 million Conservative donor who said Diane Abbot makes you “want to hate all black women”.
Then there was the hullaballoo over Labour accepting cash from Dale Vince, a New Age traveller turned energy entrepreneur who bankrolled the Swampies of Just Stop Oil. Most recently, there’s been a rumpus over a “K” for Mohamed
