Gove: Hester remarks not extremist and warrant ‘Christian forgiveness’

Senior Tory says donor’s ‘horrific’ comment that Diane Abbott should be shot unlikely to be investigated by new taskforce

UK politics – latest updates

Michael Gove has said remarks made by the Conservative party’s largest donor were “horrific” but were unlikely to be referred to the government’s new extremism taskforce.

The communities secretary said Frank Hester’s comments about the veteran MP Diane Abbott were “racist”, but that he “wouldn’t want to conflate” an individual set of remarks with an extremist ideology.

Continue reading…

10127

352

Subscribe

Connect with

Login

I allow to create an account

When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account.

DisagreeAgree

Notify of

new follow-up comments new replies to my comments

Label

{} [+]

Name*

Email*

Website

I allow to create an account

When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account.

DisagreeAgree

Label

{} [+]

Name*

Email*

Website

0 Comments

Inline Feedbacks

View all comments