{"id":2653,"date":"2024-03-17T21:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/tory-donor-comments-on-abbott-racist-and-sexist-kwarteng\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T21:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T21:28:30","slug":"tory-donor-comments-on-abbott-racist-and-sexist-kwarteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/tory-donor-comments-on-abbott-racist-and-sexist-kwarteng\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory donor comments on Abbott &#8216;racist and sexist&#8217; &#8211; Kwarteng"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/4375\/production\/_132896271_p0hj421g.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tory donor comments on Abbott &#8216;racist and sexist&#8217; &#8211; Kwarteng\" title=\"Tory donor comments on Abbott &#8216;racist and sexist&#8217; &#8211; Kwarteng\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has condemned comments from Frank Hester, the Tory party&#8217;s biggest donor, about MP Diane Abbott, who sits as an independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kwasi Kwarteng said the reported remarks from 2019 were \u201cclearly racist, and clearly sexist\u201d as well as  \u201cvery stupid\u201d and \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added he had not heard what was said, and there \u201cmay be a context\u201d that was not widely known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hester has apologised for making &#8220;rude&#8221; comments about the ex-shadow home secretary but added they &#8220;had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-68542624\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Diane Abbott calls Tory donor&#8217;s comments frightening<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has condemned comments from Frank Hester, the Tory party&#8217;s biggest donor, about MP Diane Abbott, who sits as an independent. Kwasi Kwarteng said the reported remarks from 2019 were \u201cclearly racist, and clearly sexist\u201d as well as \u201cvery stupid\u201d and \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d. He added he had not heard what was said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2654,"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\/4375\/production\/_132896271_p0hj421g.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[366,2102,370,4708,4449,4707,492],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653"}],"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=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}