PM: Tory donor’s remorse should be accepted
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer used Prime Minister's Questions to raise the case of Tory donor Frank Hester, asking Rishi Sunak: “Is the Prime Minister proud to be bankrolled by someone using racist and misogynistic language.”
The prime minister Rishi Sunak replied by insisting that “the alleged comments were wrong, they were racist, he has rightly apologised for them and that remorse should be accepted.” Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
The prime minister Rishi Sunak replied by insisting that “the alleged comments were wrong, they were racist, he has rightly apologised for them and that remorse should be accepted.” Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Is the Prime Minister proud to be bankrolled by someone using racist and misogynist language
00:05 when he says the member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington makes you want to hate
00:11 all black women?
00:13 Mr Speaker, the alleged comments were wrong, they were racist. And he has now, as I said,
00:22 the comments were wrong, they were racist. He has rightly apologised for them and that
00:26 remorse, and that remorse should be accepted, Mr Speaker. There is no place for racism in
00:31 Britain and the government that I lead is living proof of that.
00:40 Mr Speaker, the man bankrolling the Prime Minister also said that the member for Hackney
00:45 North should be shot. How low would he have to sink? What racist, woman-hating threat
00:53 of violence would he have to make before the Prime Minister plucked up the courage to hand
00:59 back the £10 million that he has taken from him?
01:02 When he talks about language, he might want to reflect on the double standards of his
01:07 Deputy Leader calling her opponents scum, his shadow Foreign Secretary comparing Conservatives
01:21 to Nazis, and the man that he wanted to make Chancellor talking about lynching a female
01:30 Minister. His silence on that speaks volumes.
01:35 Mr Speaker, the difference is he is scared of his party, I have changed my party.
01:41 Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker.