{"id":2374,"date":"2024-03-17T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/tories-dont-have-race-problem-says-mark-harper\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T16:21:28","slug":"tories-dont-have-race-problem-says-mark-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/tories-dont-have-race-problem-says-mark-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories &#8216;don&#8217;t have race problem&#8217;, says Mark Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/14DEC\/production\/_132948458_p0hk6d7r.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tories &#8216;don&#8217;t have race problem&#8217;, says Mark Harper\" title=\"Tories &#8216;don&#8217;t have race problem&#8217;, says Mark Harper\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Conservative party &#8220;absolutely does not&#8221; have a problem with race, Transport Secretary Mark Harper has told the BBC&#8217;s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Harper was speaking after a week in which the party has come under pressure due to a \u00a310m donation it received from businessman Frank Hester. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hester allegedly said veteran MP Diane Abbott made him &#8220;want to hate all black women&#8221; and should &#8220;be shot&#8221;, sparking days of fierce backlash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tech boss apologised for making &#8220;rude&#8221; comments about the former-Labour MP but said his remarks &#8220;had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative party &#8220;absolutely does not&#8221; have a problem with race, Transport Secretary Mark Harper has told the BBC&#8217;s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme. Mr Harper was speaking after a week in which the party has come under pressure due to a \u00a310m donation it received from businessman Frank Hester. Mr Hester allegedly said veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/14DEC\/production\/_132948458_p0hk6d7r.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[553,4216,73,3684,1593,3440],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}