Full exchange: SNP leader claims Sunak is ‘putting money before morals’ in heated PMQs

Watch as Stephen Flynn, Westminster leader of SNP, accused the prime minister ’putting money before morals’ amid an ever-growing row about race in the Tory party. This week’s PMQs centred on a Tory donor’s alleged racist remarks against Diane Abbott, Britain’s longest-serving black MP. The Guardian reported Frank Hester, chief executive of The Pheonix Partnership (TPP), made his comments during a company meeting in 2019, where he said: “It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you’re just like… you just want to hate all black women because she’s there. “And I don’t hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot. “(The executive) and Diane Abbott need to be shot.” TPP said Mr Hester “accepts that he was rude about Diane Abbot” but claims his criticism “had nothing to do with her gender or colour of skin.“ The healthcare software firm also claimed that Mr Hester phoned Ms Abbott twice in an
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