Mark Harper says Rishi Sunak's spokesman "made it very clear" that Frank Hester's comments were racist. Completely untrue. The line for about 24 hours was that the comments had absolutely nothing to do with Diane Abbot's race or gender. #bbclaurak
@AdamBienkov Gaslighting. Quelle fucking surprise.
@AdamBienkov It suits the Tories just fine to continue this as a race/hate debate and disraction. This plays into their core base. What they don't want to happen is for it to be seen as another example of sleaze, corruption and even downright bribery.
@AdamBienkov What's more worrying it seems the Tories are still willing to be bank rolled by another £5 million from someone who's made those comments. Still they look to take more money knowing what he's said. No moral compass hopefully the Tories will be finished in Local May elections
@AdamBienkov She could just have repeated Graham Stewarts or Mel Strides comments back to him they were clearly parroting the government line and not freestyling
@AdamBienkov Kuenssberg going so softly softly with Mark Harper.
@AdamBienkov Why does Mark Harper start each sentence with ‘well look….’? It sounds very condescending don’t you think?
@AdamBienkov Apparently they were establishing the facts 😂😂
@AdamBienkov He said he's apologised for the comments too and we should accept it and move on. Also completely untrue. He apologised for being 'rude.'
@AdamBienkov Please fight Tories #StopRacism Together we can do this MIR increasing from £18600 to £38700 means only top 30% of earners have freedom to love who they want #ToriesAreEvil it #DiscriiminatesandDevastates - increases start 11.4.24 Sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6526…
@AdamBienkov #HesterHate still not apologised for his misogyny and racist remarks about Abbot