Diane Abbott says it’s ‘frightful’ to hear what Tory donor Frank Hester said about her – UK politics live – Guardian

Humza Yousaf, the SNP leader and Scotland’s first minister, has described Frank Hester’s comments about Diane Abbott as no longer accurate “racist” and “sexist”, however had been additionally “inciting hatred”.

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Speaking at an occasion at the LSE in London at the present time, he said:

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If the Conservative get dangle of together had any apt thought, then they’d return every single penny and yelp him where his money ought to hasten – that is my correct behold.

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At the birth, can I shriek that I stand in paunchy team spirit with Diane Abbott – she has been a trailblazer for heaps of years.

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We may well simply personal our differences on divulge concerns, however I stand paunchy sq. within the abet of and alongside Diane Abbott.

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Yousaf used to be giving a speech whereby he claimed that, with out Brexit, Scotland would personal £1.6bn more to exhaust on public services than it does now.

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Hester has issued a say saying he accepts he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”. He additionally says he views racism as “a poison that has no affirm in public life”. (Gather out about 3.58pm.)

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The place of job of the Commons speaker has rejected requires an investigation into claims that Keir Starmer exerted undue stress on Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, to get dangle of him to allow a vote on Labour’s fling on Gaza, Aubrey Allegretti from the Times reports.

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The choice used to be taken by the three Commons deputy speakers – Dame Eleanor Laing, Dame Rosie Winterton and Nigel Evans – because Hoyle recused himself, being in my thought all in favour of the matter.

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In a letter to Sir Graham Brady, the Conservative chair of the backbench 1922 Committee, Owen Thompson, the SNP chief whip, and Liz Saville Roberts, the Plaid Cymru leader at Westminster, the three deputy speakers said there used to be no precedent of an inquiry of this form.

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The Commons privileges committee investigates allegations about of us interfering improperly with the work of MPs, and this may quilt the utilization of threats. After Hoyle announced that he would ignore parliamentary principles to allow a vote on a Labour modification to the SNP fling on Gaza, it used to be alleged that Starmer had dilapidated threats to produce this end result – in all likelihood by saying Labour MPs would vote Hoyle out of place of job in future if he did no longer comply.

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Starmer strongly rejected this inform, for which there’s no massive evidence. Labour says he sought to e-book Hoyle to allow the vote by saying MPs would face more threats from of us with militant views on the Gaza field if it did no longer hasten forward.

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Of their letter the three deputy speakers shriek the speaker desires to be allowed to search the suggestion of MPs in self belief and that a privileges committee inquiry into his conversation with Starmer would undermine this thought.

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They additionally shriek there is no precedent of launching an inquiry of this form accurate on the foundation of unsubstantiated claims about what used to be said at a non-public meeting.

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Allegretti has printed a letter from the three deputy speakers explaining their decision right here.

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Odd:

All three Commons deputy speakers unanimously rule that no vote will be allowed on referring Keir Starmer to privileges committee over the Gaza ceasefire debate.

Tory, SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs had requested an investigation alleging the Labour leader forced him to… pic.twitter.com/7tHfy8tjBA

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) March 12, 2024

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The Tory donor Frank Hester has issued a unusual say on X associated to the controversy generated by the Guardian narrative about what he said about Diane Abbott. In it he says he views racism as “a poison that has no affirm in public life”.

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Having quoted me precisely saying “I detest racism” @guardian newspaper has accurate asked me to substantiate that I made these following remarks at the identical meeting 5 years ago that they reported on the day previous to this. They inform that I told workers:

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— Frank Hester OBE (@HesterObe) March 12, 2024

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Having quoted me precisely saying “I detest racism” @guardian newspaper has accurate asked me to substantiate that I made these following remarks at the identical meeting 5 years ago that they reported on the day previous to this. They inform that I told workers:

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“For me, racism is a hatred and a inconvenience of the different. For me, it’s exactly the identical as homophobia – it’s no longer restricted to the color of your skin, it’s miles never restricted to religion, it need to accurate be the country subsequent door. It will most likely well very neatly be northerners and southerners, which now we personal right here.”

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I’m able to substantiate that right here’s an apt reflection of my behold that hatred of others in step with trot, religion, gender, sexuality or geography is odious and disgusting and that racism – in divulge – is a poison that has no affirm in public life.

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The UK advantages immensely from the rich range of of us – like my fogeys – who had roots in one other land, religion and tradition. We ought to celebrate those differences which personal made us the enviornment’s most a hit multi-ethnic, multi-faith democracy. And we’re going to need to personal the shallowness to focus on our differences openly and even playfully with out looking for to cause offence.

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Hester additionally printed a say about the narrative on X the day previous to this afternoon, after the Guardian printed its preliminary document about him.

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Claire Coutinho, the energy secretary, has given a speech at the present time to jabber that the authorities will reinforce the improvement of fresh gasoline-fired energy stations. Our preview narrative by Alex Lawson is right here, the paunchy tet of the speech is right here, and right here is a passage from the speech where Coutinho says this protection does no longer breach the UK’s get dangle of zero commitments.

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There are two causes why backing gasoline is no longer at odds with our world-leading get dangle of zero commitments.

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First, we search records from all fresh gasoline energy stations to be built get dangle of zero ready.

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Which methodology corporations need to produce energy vegetation that are ready to connect to carbon capture technology or that may well very neatly be changed to burn hydrogen as an different of gasoline …

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Second, these gasoline energy vegetation will urge less recurrently as unabated as we produce more and more low-carbon technology and long-term storage.

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However while we’re bringing other versatile sources online, we won’t rob any dangers.

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Within the previous six months now we personal been accused of rolling abet on our get dangle of zero plans.

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So let me address this head-on: Britain is the poster baby for get dangle of zero.

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We’ve halved our greenhouse gasoline emissions since 1990.

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Out of the tip 20 greatest economies on the earth, no person has completed more than us.

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Yet many experts and campaigners operate no longer score this diagnosis.

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Rebecca Newsom, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said:

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This most up-to-date announcement desires to be seen for what it’s – concessions to the gasoline lobby. It demonstrates the stranglehold that the fossil gas change easy has on the authorities’s decision making, and ministers’ incompetence in if truth be told turning within the policies they’ve promised.

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Coutinho has failed to account for a concept to assign up watch over gasoline plant emissions after 2035, yet the authorities says they desire a zero carbon energy machine by the identical date. Something isn’t rather including up.

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Stuart Haszeldine, professor of carbon capture and storage at Edinburgh University, said:

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The UK has a dedication to zero carbon electricity by 2035 – that will now fail …

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It’s loopy to produce a brand fresh technology of gasoline-fuelled energy vegetation, with out a pipeline or transport connections linking to CO2 storage. This is no longer accurate giving up global management, right here’s the UK going backwards to a affirm of ensuing in produce native climate change happen.

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And Prof Jim Watson, head of the Institute for Sustainable Sources, at University College London (UCL), said:

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Constructing fresh energy vegetation fuelled by ‘natural gasoline’ is the shocking methodology to balancing provide and search records from in a decarbonised energy sector. The UK already has a expansive selection of such vegetation.

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As an different, the focal level desires to be on retrofitting a pair of of the more fresh vegetation to urge inexperienced hydrogen (produced by renewables), or becoming them with carbon capture and storage technologies. Each and every alternate choices are technically that that that you just may imagine now.

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The Science Media Centre has printed an impressive broader range of response from lecturers right here.

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A circulation to potentially allow prisoners to shave two months off their jail time is the “most drastic fabricate of early begin” ever witnessed in England and Wales, in step with Labour.

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As PA Media reports, Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, announced final evening an extension to the tip of custody supervised licence (ECSL) plot, taking it from 18 days to a most of 60 days in a tell to ease overcrowding pressures in prisons. PA says:

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The authorities has insisted the measure will be brief and easiest word to so-known as “low-level offenders”.

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Chalk made the announcement through a written ministerial say to parliament after 8pm, a pain Labour branded “plainly inadequate given the gravity of the pain”, sooner than attending the Commons in particular person to update MPs this afternoon.

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Shabana Mahmood, the shadow justice secretary, said the extension used to be “unheard of”.

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Replying to Chalk’s say within the Commons, she said: “Let us be in absolute self belief, right here’s essentially the most drastic fabricate of early begin for prisoners that this country has ever seen, and in his 11-page and 10-minute long say at the present time, it merited one paragraph.

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“This will most definitely be a measure which is able to cause shockwaves and deep explain across our country, and the secretary of affirm appears to be like to mediate a aloof written ministerial say printed leisurely final evening and one paragraph at the present time is apt sufficient — it’s miles never.”

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The Labour MP posed a range of questions for her reverse quantity, including how many americans had thus a ways been launched through the plot, what prisons are making employ of it and whether or no longer convicted home abusers and stalkers are eligible under its terms.

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Mahmood added: “The authorities has refused all requests to be transparent about the size and the impact of this plot, right here’s no technique to urge the legal justice machine, or certainly the country.”

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Chalk did no longer provide solutions to her questions however assured that the authorities would rob “every step to present protection to the public”.

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Downing Road said the plot may well be brief however refused to position a closing date for when it’d be smash down.

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Requested how long it can well very neatly be in affirm, the prime minister’s spokesperson said: “I’m able to’t provide a projection however it absolutely is terribly clearly a brief measure. It’s up to governors to employ it operationally, searching on their instances.”

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In step with MoJ figures, the penal complex population stood at 88,220 as of 8 March. The operational capability is somewhat over 89,000.

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Diane Abbott is currently suspended from the parliamentary Labour get dangle of together thanks to a letter she wrote to the Observer that steered that antisemitism wasn’t as serious because the racism suffered by gloomy of us, and that it used to be more akin to prejudice.

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Requested if Abbott desires to be reinstated, Shami Chakrabarti told the World at One that she hoped Keir Starmer’s acknowledgment at the present time that Abbott has been a “trailblazer” (survey 10.13am) may well abet lead to her having the whip restored. Chakrabarti said:

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I don’t are looking for to interfere in discussions that [Abbott] may want to personal with the labour whips.

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However I listened very fairly to Keir Starmer, our leader, and what he said about Diana the trailblazer, and what she’s had to do apart up with.

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I am hoping that that will be taken into narrative alongside her very urged and staunch apologies for that letter.

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Shami Chakrabarti, the Labour peek who’s a buddy of Diane Abbott, used to be interviewed about the Frank Hester comments on the World at One and he or she issued an instantaneous charm to Rishi Sunak to cope with the topic neatly.

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• Chakrabarti said she used to be “fearful” that ministers had been refusing to describe the Hester remarks as racist. If they refused to name this out, they had been condoning the comments, she implied. She said:

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Having heard the interviews of the ministers, I’m accurate fully fearful that they wouldn’t they wouldn’t name this for what it’s. And I mediate whenever you happen to don’t name it at that level, you’re somehow licensing it.

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If they shriek that this gentleman didn’t produce the remarks that I’m reading accurate now within the Guardian in quote marks, if he didn’t produce those remarks, then that may well very neatly be said.

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However if he did produce those remarks, that is lawful, misogynistic, trot hate speech. And that ought to no longer be tolerated anyplace, and no longer within the very top echelons of the British Conservative get dangle of together, and no longer from any person that’s brought himself £10m’s worth of impact in our country, and in authorities.

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• She appealed to Sunak to “save his maintain house in make clear” if he desires to convey he is fascinated with tackling extremism. She said:

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I shriek to the prime minister, our first non white prime minister, please, please operate something about this. You stood final week on the steps of Downing Road and likewise you said you essential to address extremism. We’ve bought [Michael] Gove who’s going to do apart out some fresh, huge definition of extremism. There’s heaps of there’s heaps of divisive politics being done right here.

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And yet they won’t name out what’s occurring of their maintain of their maintain protection at the very top echelons …

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This fabricate of observation made by a truly, very well-known necessary donor to the get dangle of together of authorities is gruesome. This is no longer where I believed our beautiful country may well be practically a quarter of the model into the 21st century.

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Mr Sunak desires to do apart his maintain house in make clear sooner than he starts lecturing anybody else, whether or no longer protesters or anybody else, about extremism.

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• She said that the extent of abuse Abbott has suffered is “phenomonal”. As evidence, she cited an Amnesty Global document from 2017 saying Abbott abilities more online abuse than any individual else in parliament.

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• She said that she used to be very anxious on behalf of her buddy. Requested how Abbott used to be responding to the controversy, Chakrabarti spoke back:

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She’s anxious and he or she’s upset however, as she always does, she’s placing a heroic face on and trying no longer to inconvenience her company. However I if truth be told personal to claim my coronary heart is pounding, and I’m if truth be told upset and anxious on her behalf.

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Hester has issued a say saying he accepts he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”.

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The BBC reports that a spokesperson for Hester says this ought to no longer be be taught as confirmation that Hester said the phrases attributed to him. However Hester has no longer denied saying those phrases both.

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After Lee Anderson resigned the day previous to this, the Contemporary Conservatives, a community of rightwing backbench MPs, issued a lengthy say saying this circulation confirmed that Tory voters if truth be told feel let down by the authorities. It additionally said authorities messaging used to be now more and more mighty. It said:

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Our poll numbers convey what the public mediate our fable since 2019. We is no longer going to faux to any extent additional that ‘the concept is working’. We personal to interchange course urgently.

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At No 10, they both did no longer get dangle of the message, or are ignoring it. Downing Road has despatched out its readout from this morning’s cupboard meeting and it shows that Rishi Sunak stays very committed to the line that his concept is working. A No 10 spokesperson said:

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The prime minister asked the work and pensions secretary for an update on at the present time’s labour market statistics. He said the stats confirmed the concept is working, with payroll employment at a fable high, precise wages growing for seven months in a row, and our affirm of being inactive payment is under the US, France, and Italy.

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The prime minister changed into to an update on fling to slash crime and produce our streets safer. The prime minister said our crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour is working, with violent and neighbourhood crime halved since 2010. He added that to reinforce this we’re constructing 20,000 fresh penal complex areas, the greatest programme since the Victorian age, which he funded as chancellor.

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In step with the No 10 readout, James Cleverly, the house secretary, additionally told cupboard that police recruitment used to be up, total crime used to be down, and more a ways off places offenders had been being deported. And Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, told colleagues that reoffending by ragged prisoners used to be down from 31% in 2010 to 25%. That used to be because of “work to make definite prisoners launched from penal complex are no longer left with out a affirm to stay or a job, with the volume offenders in work six months after leaving penal complex doubling within the final year”, No 10 said.

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Lord Marland, a businessman and ragged Conservative get dangle of together treasurer, describes himself as a buddy of Frank Hester. In an interview with LBC, he said that he did no longer mediate Hester used to be racist. He said:

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I do know Frank Hester as it turns out and the first demand I quiz myself is ‘is he a racist’? And the Frank Hester I do know isn’t.

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He’s a global businessman, he travels widely abroad – he does heaps of a commercial in Jamacia, he does commercial in Malaysia, in Bangladesh – so he’s no longer a racist.

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He made some dejected remarks that operate sound racist, and rather rightly he’s apologised for them. That’s my behold on the topic. My overriding ingredient is that he’s no longer a racist.

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Requested if he belief the Conservative get dangle of together ought to return the £10m it bought from Hester, Marland said it used to be no longer for him to claim.

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At the Downing Road lobby briefing the PM’s spokesperson said the commens made by Frank Hester about Diane Abbott had been “clearly unacceptable”, however he refused to claim whether or no longer they had been racist.

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Requested about the comments, the spokesperson said:

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I wouldn’t on the total observation on alleged phrases, 2d-hand accounts, etc.

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However, as minister [Graham] Stuart said this morning[survey10.01am], what’s alleged and reported to personal been said is clearly unacceptable.

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The spokesperson refused to be drawn on why they had been unacceptable, including: “I don’t personal anything to add previous what minister Stuart said this morning.”

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Hester has issued a say saying he accepts he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”.

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The Inexperienced get dangle of together has joined Labour and the Liberal Democrats in saying the Conservative get dangle of together no longer assign the £10m it bought from Frank Hester.

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However as an different of calling for the money to be returned, because the two other parties personal completed, the Greens are saying the money desires to be donated to groups campaigning against racism and home violence. In a say, the get dangle of together’s spokesperson for policing and home security, Amanda Onwuemene, said:

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It’s decided that racists are funding the Tory get dangle of together to the tune of tens of millions of kilos. No wonder they fail to name this out for what it’s – a vile racist and misogynist assault on a girl who made historic previous by turning into Britain’s first Dim girl MP and who has had a worthy political profession.

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The Inexperienced Celebration stands in team spirit with Diane Abbott and all gloomy ladies folk. No one may want to personal to face the abuse and threats she is field to.

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Labour desires the Conservative get dangle of together to come abet the £10m donation – to a particular person responsible of racism and misogyny. As Greens we pain the Conservative get dangle of together to donate the sum it has bought from Hester to a pair of of the heaps of anti-racism and home violence campaigns around the country that are doing such treasured work. That may well existing the Tories are in actuality fascinated by preventing racism and misogyny.

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Hester has issued a say saying he accepts he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”.

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Graham Stuart, the energy minister, used to be additionally asked about the defection of Lee Anderson to Reform UK at some level of his interview round this morning. Anderson used to be no longer seemingly to final long in his fresh get dangle of together, Stuart predicted. He told GB Recordsdata:

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n

That you simply may survey Lee Anderson on the stage with his fresh leader barely in a do apart to masks his irritation, so I’m no longer definite how long that honeymoon goes to final.

n

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One other minister, Esther McVey, told journalists as she arrived in Downing Road for cupboard this morning that she felt Anderson, a Labour councillor sooner than he changed into a Tory MP, had long previous paunchy circle. She explained:

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n

To be beautiful, I’m somewhat disappointed about Lee’s decision, and stunned as neatly.

n

I point out, after he campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn in 2017, in operate he’s now long previous paunchy circle and he’ll be campaigning for Keir Starmer, because even he said a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour. So, I’ve clearly misjudged him.

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Diane Abbott has issued a say to ITV’s Factual Morning Britain about the Frank Hester comments. In it she said:

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n

It’s frightful. I live in Hackney, I don’t force, so I gain myself, at weekends, popping on a bus and even strolling areas, more than most MPs.

n

I’m a single girl and that makes me vulnerable anyway. However to hear any person talking like right here’s caring.

n

For all of my profession as an MP I if truth be told personal belief it essential no longer to live in a bubble, however to combine and mingle with in model of us. The truth that two MPs personal been murdered lately makes talk like this your total more alarming.

n

I’m currently no longer a member of the parliamentary Labour get dangle of together, however remain a member of the Labour get dangle of together itself, so I’m hoping for public reinforce from Keir Starmer.

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My say made to Factual Morning Britain this morning. https://t.co/ACDEWhHGcg

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) March 12, 2024

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Michelle Donelan, the science secretary, is giving evidence to the Lords science and technology committee. In her opening remarks, she made a say about the controversy that ended in her division paying £15,000 to an academic libelled by Donelan on X.

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She said that she may want to personal raised her concerns about the educational in non-public, no longer in public, and he or she apologised for no longer doing that.

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Donelan told the committee that, because the minister to blame for UK Study and Innovation (UKRI), officials alerted her to a tweet saying: “This is demanding – Suella Braverman urges police to crackdown on Hamas reinforce in UK.” This used to be posted by any person sitting on a UKRI EDI (equality, range and inclusion) board, Donelan said.

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She went on:

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n

At the time I was very enthusiastic that there used to be a process failing within the appointment of individuals to the EDI board. And I worked with officials in my division, and lawyers across my division, over the course of two days to draft, to decided and to send an legitimate letter to UKRI’s CEO to quiz for an investigation.

n

This used to be highlighted the employ of the identical medium that used to be within the origin dilapidated, ie X or, as it’s on the total identified, Twitter.

n

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Donelan said the letter prompted an investigation. She said the particular person enthusiastic, Prof Kate Sang at Heriot-Watt college in Edinburgh, subsequently confirmed that her “right here’s demanding” observation used to be about your total article she referenced, no longer accurate the headline about the Hamas crackdown.

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Donelan said she has now withdrawn all her concerns and £15,000 has been paid to make a selection the case. She went on:

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n

The apt expenditure used to be licensed by the division’s accounting officer.

n

Whereas I always err on the facet of transparency, I’m now decided that in this case, I may personal despatched the letter in self belief to the UKRI in make clear for them to undertake the investigations privately. And I operate apologise for no longer having completed so and for distraction that this decision has brought about from this authorities’s definite agenda.

n

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Samuel Kasumu, who worked as a fair accurate adviser for Boris Johnson in Downing Road on civil society and communities, gave a transferring interview about the Frank Hester comments on the Lately programme this morning. He said that many americans may well simply no longer worship rather how essential a resolve Diane Abbott used to be to gloomy Britons, and rather what a well-known position she done in “our maintain island narrative”. Listed below are the main quotes from his interview.

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• Kasumu said that many gloomy Britons, no matter their get dangle of together politics, felt in my thought offended by comments of this form about Abbott. He explained:

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I mediate it’s essential to reveal their personal praises that as a gloomy Brit Diane Abbott is any person that is terribly historically well-known. She used to be first elected in 1987, the year that I was born.

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I wouldn’t personal been a fair accurate advisor in Downing Road if it wasn’t for Diane Abbott. Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Kwasi Kwarteng, David Lammy – they would not be where they are at the present time if it wasn’t for Diane Abbott. And so it’s essential to reveal their personal praises that for heaps of gloomy Brits, every time Diane is attacked, we operate if truth be told feel it …

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We if truth be told feel a plot of tension thanks to her historic significance. Regardless of what our politics would be, and our politics operate vary, she ran so that americans like me may well mosey. And so I mediate for heaps of those that survey her as an easy target, in all likelihood they don’t if truth be told realize accurate how essential a resolve she is through our maintain island narrative.

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Kasumu said that within the origin he had no longer essential to present an interview on this topic. However he said he changed his suggestions when he seen how powerful this mattered to his wife, who’s gloomy. He explained:

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After I told her about the phrases that had been said, and I seen the behold on her face, I understood that I had a apt obligation to talk up and talk out and shriek that if truth be told phrases like this matter, and they’re fully unacceptable.

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• Kasumu said Hester ought to score that “phrases operate matter’. When it used to be save to him that Hester claims his criticism of Abbott used to be no longer racist, Kasumu spoke back:

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In fresh years now we personal had two individuals of parliament, necessary individuals of parliament, killed, and so phrases operate matter. And any individual in a affirm like Mr Hester need to recognise that, whether or no longer you’re in a pub, otherwise you’re at work, otherwise you’re all in favour of public life, his statements had been fully abhorrent and unacceptable.

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• Kasumu said that it used to be no longer sufficient for Hester to apologise. He said:

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Somone of his standing need to operate more. They desires to be share of the answer round how we lift our country together and we heal divisions and we address racism and misogyny etc …

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He has to be any person that is seen to be a pacesetter that has learned from his mistake. However additionally any person that is proactively investing in making definite that our country can proceed to prosper and proceed to get dangle of to a diploma where it’s more united.

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And so he’s going to personal to operate more than accurate looking for to name Diane Abbott. He’s going to personal to take a position his time, his efforts, his sources, in being share of the answer. Due to the accurate now he’s share of the topic.

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• Kasumu declined to abet requires the Conservative get dangle of together to come abet the £10m it bought from Hester, saying he regarded this field as “inconsequential”. Requested if the money desires to be returned, he spoke back:

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For me that is inconsequential. Whey theytook the money, it used to be no longer thanks to comments that he may well simply or may well simply no longer personal made decades ago. I don’t need us to be distracted by what ought to or shouldn’t happen to the money. We need to always form out making definite that we address the racism that also exists in our country.

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• He praised Rishi Sunak for his “beautiful” speech on extremism two weeks ago, however said “plot more desires to be completed”.

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Hester has issued a say saying he accepts he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”.

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Keir Starmer has said that comments about Diane Abbott by the Conservative get dangle of together’s greatest donor had been “abhorrent,” because the Labour leader entreated the Conservatives to come abet £10m given to it by the businessman.

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The Labour leader additionally attacked a minister who declined to hasten additional than calling Frank Hester’s comments “fully unacceptable” when asked about them in interviews this morning. (Gather out about10.01am.)

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The Labour leader told ITV’s Lorraine on Tuesday:

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n

The comments about Diane Abbott are accurate abhorrent.

n

And Diane has been a trailblazer, she has lead the model for others, she’s potentially confronted more abuse than any other politician over the years on a sustained foundation.

n

And I’m sorry, this apology this morning that is pretending that what used to be said wasn’t racist or anything to operate with the truth she’s a girl, I don’t aquire that I’m apprehensive, and I mediate that it’s time the Tory Celebration known as it out and returned the money.

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Hester has issued a say saying he favorite he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”.

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Factual morning. Graham Stuart, the energy minister, has had the job of being the authorities’s all-cause spokesperson this morning. He used to be doing the interview round to focus on an announcement about constructing fresh gasoline-fired energy stations, however inevitably he has confronted questions about the Guardian’s splash about Frank Hester, the greatest donor to the Conservative get dangle of together.

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Tuesday's GUARDIAN: Most though-provoking Tory donor: having a survey at Diane Abbott makes you 'are looking for to hate all gloomy ladies folk'#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/dAZemtDT2Y

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To recap: the Guardian reports that at a meeting at his agency’s HQ in 2019 Hester spoke about an executive from one other organisation, saying:

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n

She’s shit. She’s the shittest particular person. Honestly I strive no longer to be sexist however when I meet any individual like[the chief], I accurate …

n

It’s like trying no longer to be racist however you survey Diane Abbott on the TV and likewise you’re accurate like, I hate, you accurate are looking for to hate all gloomy ladies folk because she’s there, and I don’t hate all gloomy ladies folk the least bit, however I mediate she desires to be shot.

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After the narrative used to be printed Hester issued a say saying he favorite he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”.

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Explain referring to fresh media reports:

Frank Hester accepts that he used to be coarse about Diane Abbot in a non-public meeting plenty of years ago however his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin. The Guardian is precise when it quotes Frank saying he abhors racism,…

— Frank Hester OBE (@HesterObe) March 11, 2024

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The BBC reports that a spokesperson for Hester says this ought to no longer be be taught as confirmation that Hester said the phrases attributed to him. However Hester has no longer denied saying those phrases both.

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Listed below are a pair of of the points Stuart has been making in step with questions about this narrative.

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n

• Stuart said Hester’s comments had been “fully unacceptable”, however he declined to describe them as racist. Requested on Times Radio if the comments had been racist, Stuart said:

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n

I gain it fully unacceptable. I hesitate to stick that divulge mark on it. I’m hesitating to name it that because I don’t need to sit in judgment on these issues.

n

It used to be clearly a ridiculous ingredient to claim, he’s rightly apologised for it and right here’s a one that’s supporting essentially the most diverse cupboard we’ve ever had under this Conservative Celebration. We’ve bought a Hindu prime minister and he’s our greatest donor, so I don’t mediate right here’s a one that is a racist.

n

However I’ve never met him, I don’t know him and all I do know is those comments had been immoral, shocking, and rather rightly he has tried to be triumphant in out to Diane Abbott in my thought.

n

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• Stuart claimed on the Lately programme that the comments attributed to Hester by the Guardian “haven’t been verified”. (That’s no longer beautiful on the Guardian; we haven’t got printed them if we had no longer verified them.)

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n

• Stuart said of us ought to no longer be cancelled in public life thanks to comments made within the previous and refused to score that the Tories ought to return his donations. Requested on Sky Recordsdata if the Conservative get dangle of together ought to return the £10m it has bought from Hester, Stuart spoke back:

n

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n

We are able to’t execute anybody from participation in public life, or certainly donating to parties, because they said something intemperate and shocking of their previous.

n

It’s no longer my decision, however I operate welcome those that reinforce the Conservative get dangle of together.

n

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Stuart made the identical argument in his Lately interview, saying he wouldn’t approve of “cancelling any individual who’s ever said anything half of a decade ago”.

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n

• He told the Lately programme that vilification of the kind experienced by Abbott “will force apt of us out of politics”.

n

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n

• He admitted on the Lately programme that he used to be “sad” answering questions about Hester because “he used to be clearly shocking”.

n

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• He said Hester deserved “realizing”. He told the Lately programme:

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n

We personal to convey realizing. The essential ingredient used to be that he did apologise and that he’s completed so, and I mediate rather accurate. Though, as I shriek, I don’t know exactly what it used to be he said … It’s no longer something of which he or we may well very neatly be proud.

n

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Here is the agenda for the day.

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Morning: Rishi Sunak chairs cupboard, including a political cupboard session.

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10.15am: Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Funds Accountability, provides evidence to the Commons Treasury committee about the funds. At 2.15pm Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Reviews, and Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Decision Foundation, give evidence.

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11am: Michelle Donelan, the science secretary, provides evidence to the Lords science committee

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11.30am: Downing Road holds a lobby briefing.

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1.30pm: Claire Countinho, the energy secretary, provides a speech at the Chatham Home Energy Transitions Conference.

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3.10pm: David Cameron, the a ways off places secretary, takes questions within the Home of Lords.

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Round 4pm: Pals originate up the debate on the third reading of the safety of Rwanda (asylum and immigration) invoice.

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I’m apprehensive we may personal to personal comments off, no longer lower than for the originate up of the day, for the explanation that Hester narrative is attracting heaps of libellous or potentially libellous comments making moderation very hard.

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Humza Yousaf says if Tories had ‘any apt thought’ they’d return Hester’s £10m

Humza Yousaf, the SNP leader and Scotland’s first minister, has described Frank Hester’s comments about Diane Abbott as no longer accurate “racist” and “sexist”, however had been additionally “inciting hatred”.

Speaking at an occasion at the LSE in London at the present time, he said:

If the Conservative get dangle of together had any apt thought, then they’d return every single penny and yelp him where his money ought to hasten – that is my correct behold.

At the birth, can I shriek that I stand in paunchy team spirit with Diane Abbott – she has been a trailblazer for heaps of years.

We may well simply personal our differences on divulge concerns, however I stand paunchy sq. within the abet of and alongside Diane Abbott.

Yousaf used to be giving a speech whereby he claimed that, with out Brexit, Scotland would personal £1.6bn more to exhaust on public services than it does now.

Hester has issued a say saying he accepts he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”. He additionally says he views racism as “a poison that has no affirm in public life”. (Gather out about 3.58pm.)

MPs fail in tell to position off Commons privileges inquiry into inform Starmer coerced Hoyle sooner than Gaza vote

The place of job of the Commons speaker has rejected requires an investigation into claims that Keir Starmer exerted undue stress on Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, to get dangle of him to allow a vote on Labour’s fling on Gaza, Aubrey Allegretti from the Times reports.

The choice used to be taken by the three Commons deputy speakers – Dame Eleanor Laing, Dame Rosie Winterton and Nigel Evans – because Hoyle recused himself, being in my thought all in favour of the matter.

In a letter to Sir Graham Brady, the Conservative chair of the backbench 1922 Committee, Owen Thompson, the SNP chief whip, and Liz Saville Roberts, the Plaid Cymru leader at Westminster, the three deputy speakers said there used to be no precedent of an inquiry of this form.

The Commons privileges committee investigates allegations about of us interfering improperly with the work of MPs, and this may quilt the utilization of threats. After Hoyle announced that he would ignore parliamentary principles to allow a vote on a Labour modification to the SNP fling on Gaza, it used to be alleged that Starmer had dilapidated threats to produce this end result – in all likelihood by saying Labour MPs would vote Hoyle out of place of job in future if he did no longer comply.

Starmer strongly rejected this inform, for which there’s no massive evidence. Labour says he sought to e-book Hoyle to allow the vote by saying MPs would face more threats from of us with militant views on the Gaza field if it did no longer hasten forward.

Of their letter the three deputy speakers shriek the speaker desires to be allowed to search the suggestion of MPs in self belief and that a privileges committee inquiry into his conversation with Starmer would undermine this thought.

They additionally shriek there is no precedent of launching an inquiry of this form accurate on the foundation of unsubstantiated claims about what used to be said at a non-public meeting.

Allegretti has printed a letter from the three deputy speakers explaining their decision right here.

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All three Commons deputy speakers unanimously rule that no vote will be allowed on referring Keir Starmer to privileges committee over the Gaza ceasefire debate.

Tory, SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs had requested an investigation alleging the Labour leader forced him to… pic.twitter.com/7tHfy8tjBA

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) March 12, 2024

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All three Commons deputy speakers unanimously rule that no vote will be allowed on referring Keir Starmer to privileges committee over the Gaza ceasefire debate.

Tory, SNP and Plaid Cymru MPs had requested an investigation alleging the Labour leader forced him to… pic.twitter.com/7tHfy8tjBA

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) March 12, 2024

Hester claims he views racism as ‘a poison that has no affirm in public life’

The Tory donor Frank Hester has issued a unusual say on X associated to the controversy generated by the Guardian narrative about what he said about Diane Abbott. In it he says he views racism as “a poison that has no affirm in public life”.

Having quoted me precisely saying “I detest racism” @guardian newspaper has accurate asked me to substantiate that I made these following remarks at the identical meeting 5 years ago that they reported on the day previous to this. They inform that I told workers:

“For me, racism is a hatred and a inconvenience of the…

— Frank Hester OBE (@HesterObe) March 12, 2024

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Having quoted me precisely saying “I detest racism” @guardian newspaper has accurate asked me to substantiate that I made these following remarks at the identical meeting 5 years ago that they reported on the day previous to this. They inform that I told workers:

“For me, racism is a hatred and a inconvenience of the…

— Frank Hester OBE (@HesterObe) March 12, 2024

Having quoted me precisely saying “I detest racism” @guardian newspaper has accurate asked me to substantiate that I made these following remarks at the identical meeting 5 years ago that they reported on the day previous to this. They inform that I told workers:

“For me, racism is a hatred and a inconvenience of the different. For me, it’s exactly the identical as homophobia – it’s no longer restricted to the color of your skin, it’s miles never restricted to religion, it need to accurate be the country subsequent door. It will most likely well very neatly be northerners and southerners, which now we personal right here.”

I’m able to substantiate that right here’s an apt reflection of my behold that hatred of others in step with trot, religion, gender, sexuality or geography is odious and disgusting and that racism – in divulge – is a poison that has no affirm in public life.

The UK advantages immensely from the rich range of of us – like my fogeys – who had roots in one other land, religion and tradition. We ought to celebrate those differences which personal made us the enviornment’s most a hit multi-ethnic, multi-faith democracy. And we’re going to need to personal the shallowness to focus on our differences openly and even playfully with out looking for to cause offence.

Hester additionally printed a say about the narrative on X the day previous to this afternoon, after the Guardian printed its preliminary document about him.

Experts inform Coutinho placing zero carbon energy target in danger by allowing fresh gasoline-fired energy stations

Claire Coutinho, the energy secretary, has given a speech at the present time to jabber that the authorities will reinforce the improvement of fresh gasoline-fired energy stations. Our preview narrative by Alex Lawson is right here, the paunchy tet of the speech is right here, and right here is a passage from the speech where Coutinho says this protection does no longer breach the UK’s get dangle of zero commitments.

There are two causes why backing gasoline is no longer at odds with our world-leading get dangle of zero commitments.

First, we search records from all fresh gasoline energy stations to be built get dangle of zero ready.

Which methodology corporations need to produce energy vegetation that are ready to connect to carbon capture technology or that may well very neatly be changed to burn hydrogen as an different of gasoline …

Second, these gasoline energy vegetation will urge less recurrently as unabated as we produce more and more low-carbon technology and long-term storage.

However while we’re bringing other versatile sources online, we won’t rob any dangers.

Within the previous six months now we personal been accused of rolling abet on our get dangle of zero plans.

So let me address this head-on: Britain is the poster baby for get dangle of zero.

We’ve halved our greenhouse gasoline emissions since 1990.

Out of the tip 20 greatest economies on the earth, no person has completed more than us.

Yet many experts and campaigners operate no longer score this diagnosis.

Rebecca Newsom, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said:

This most up-to-date announcement desires to be seen for what it’s – concessions to the gasoline lobby. It demonstrates the stranglehold that the fossil gas change easy has on the authorities’s decision making, and ministers’ incompetence in if truth be told turning within the policies they’ve promised.

Coutinho has failed to account for a concept to assign up watch over gasoline plant emissions after 2035, yet the authorities says they desire a zero carbon energy machine by the identical date. Something isn’t rather including up.

Stuart Haszeldine, professor of carbon capture and storage at Edinburgh University, said:

The UK has a dedication to zero carbon electricity by 2035 – that will now fail …

It’s loopy to produce a brand fresh technology of gasoline-fuelled energy vegetation, with out a pipeline or transport connections linking to CO2 storage. This is no longer accurate giving up global management, right here’s the UK going backwards to a affirm of ensuing in produce native climate change happen.

And Prof Jim Watson, head of the Institute for Sustainable Sources, at University College London (UCL), said:

Constructing fresh energy vegetation fuelled by ‘natural gasoline’ is the shocking methodology to balancing provide and search records from in a decarbonised energy sector. The UK already has a expansive selection of such vegetation.

As an different, the focal level desires to be on retrofitting a pair of of the more fresh vegetation to urge inexperienced hydrogen (produced by renewables), or becoming them with carbon capture and storage technologies. Each and every alternate choices are technically that that that you just may imagine now.

The Science Media Centre has printed an impressive broader range of response from lecturers right here.

Labour says concept to begin prisoners up to 2 months early will generate ‘shockwaves and deep explain’

A circulation to potentially allow prisoners to shave two months off their jail time is the “most drastic fabricate of early begin” ever witnessed in England and Wales, in step with Labour.

As PA Media reports, Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, announced final evening an extension to the tip of custody supervised licence (ECSL) plot, taking it from 18 days to a most of 60 days in a tell to ease overcrowding pressures in prisons. PA says:

The authorities has insisted the measure will be brief and easiest word to so-known as “low-level offenders”.

Chalk made the announcement through a written ministerial say to parliament after 8pm, a pain Labour branded “plainly inadequate given the gravity of the pain”, sooner than attending the Commons in particular person to update MPs this afternoon.

Shabana Mahmood, the shadow justice secretary, said the extension used to be “unheard of”.

Replying to Chalk’s say within the Commons, she said: “Let us be in absolute self belief, right here’s essentially the most drastic fabricate of early begin for prisoners that this country has ever seen, and in his 11-page and 10-minute long say at the present time, it merited one paragraph.

“This will most definitely be a measure which is able to cause shockwaves and deep explain across our country, and the secretary of affirm appears to be like to mediate a aloof written ministerial say printed leisurely final evening and one paragraph at the present time is apt sufficient — it’s miles never.”

The Labour MP posed a range of questions for her reverse quantity, including how many americans had thus a ways been launched through the plot, what prisons are making employ of it and whether or no longer convicted home abusers and stalkers are eligible under its terms.

Mahmood added: “The authorities has refused all requests to be transparent about the size and the impact of this plot, right here’s no technique to urge the legal justice machine, or certainly the country.”

Chalk did no longer provide solutions to her questions however assured that the authorities would rob “every step to present protection to the public”.

Downing Road said the plot may well be brief however refused to position a closing date for when it’d be smash down.

Requested how long it can well very neatly be in affirm, the prime minister’s spokesperson said: “I’m able to’t provide a projection however it absolutely is terribly clearly a brief measure. It’s up to governors to employ it operationally, searching on their instances.”

In step with MoJ figures, the penal complex population stood at 88,220 as of 8 March. The operational capability is somewhat over 89,000.

Earlier I said the Inexperienced get dangle of together used to be calling for the £10m given by Frank Hester to the Tories to be returned. Sorry, that used to be shocking. The Greens are saying the Tories ought to donate it to groups campaigning against racism and home violence. I if truth be told personal updated the publish at 12pm with the paunchy quote.

Chakrabarti says she hopes Abbott’s fable as trailblazer for gloomy politicians will abet lead to restoration of Labour whip

Diane Abbott is currently suspended from the parliamentary Labour get dangle of together thanks to a letter she wrote to the Observer that steered that antisemitism wasn’t as serious because the racism suffered by gloomy of us, and that it used to be more akin to prejudice.

Requested if Abbott desires to be reinstated, Shami Chakrabarti told the World at One that she hoped Keir Starmer’s acknowledgment at the present time that Abbott has been a “trailblazer” (survey 10.13am) may well abet lead to her having the whip restored. Chakrabarti said:

I don’t are looking for to interfere in discussions that [Abbott] may want to personal with the labour whips.

However I listened very fairly to Keir Starmer, our leader, and what he said about Diana the trailblazer, and what she’s had to do apart up with.

I am hoping that that will be taken into narrative alongside her very urged and staunch apologies for that letter.

Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti tells Tories that refusing to describe racism as racism ‘is somehow licensing it’

Shami Chakrabarti, the Labour peek who’s a buddy of Diane Abbott, used to be interviewed about the Frank Hester comments on the World at One and he or she issued an instantaneous charm to Rishi Sunak to cope with the topic neatly.

• Chakrabarti said she used to be “fearful” that ministers had been refusing to describe the Hester remarks as racist. If they refused to name this out, they had been condoning the comments, she implied. She said:

Having heard the interviews of the ministers, I’m accurate fully fearful that they wouldn’t they wouldn’t name this for what it’s. And I mediate whenever you happen to don’t name it at that level, you’re somehow licensing it.

If they shriek that this gentleman didn’t produce the remarks that I’m reading accurate now within the Guardian in quote marks, if he didn’t produce those remarks, then that may well very neatly be said.

However if he did produce those remarks, that is lawful, misogynistic, trot hate speech. And that ought to no longer be tolerated anyplace, and no longer within the very top echelons of the British Conservative get dangle of together, and no longer from any person that’s brought himself £10m’s worth of impact in our country, and in authorities.

• She appealed to Sunak to “save his maintain house in make clear” if he desires to convey he is fascinated with tackling extremism. She said:

I shriek to the prime minister, our first non white prime minister, please, please operate something about this. You stood final week on the steps of Downing Road and likewise you said you essential to address extremism. We’ve bought [Michael] Gove who’s going to do apart out some fresh, huge definition of extremism. There’s heaps of there’s heaps of divisive politics being done right here.

And yet they won’t name out what’s occurring of their maintain of their maintain protection at the very top echelons …

This fabricate of observation made by a truly, very well-known necessary donor to the get dangle of together of authorities is gruesome. This is no longer where I believed our beautiful country may well be practically a quarter of the model into the 21st century.

Mr Sunak desires to do apart his maintain house in make clear sooner than he starts lecturing anybody else, whether or no longer protesters or anybody else, about extremism.

• She said that the extent of abuse Abbott has suffered is “phenomonal”. As evidence, she cited an Amnesty Global document from 2017 saying Abbott abilities more online abuse than any individual else in parliament.

• She said that she used to be very anxious on behalf of her buddy. Requested how Abbott used to be responding to the controversy, Chakrabarti spoke back:

She’s anxious and he or she’s upset however, as she always does, she’s placing a heroic face on and trying no longer to inconvenience her company. However I if truth be told personal to claim my coronary heart is pounding, and I’m if truth be told upset and anxious on her behalf.

Hester has issued a say saying he accepts he used to be “coarse” about Abbott in a non-public meeting, however that “his criticism had nothing to operate along with her gender nor color of skin”.

The BBC reports that a spokesperson for Hester says this ought to no longer be be taught as confirmation that Hester said the phrases attributed to him. However Hester has no longer denied saying those phrases both.

Sunak tells cupboard ‘the concept is working’ – 24 hours after Tory rightwingers notify that message now no longer precise

After Lee Anderson resigned the day previous to this, the Contemporary Conservatives, a community of rightwing backbench MPs, issued a lengthy say saying this circulation confirmed that Tory voters if truth be told feel let down by the authorities. It additionally said authorities messaging used to be now more and more mighty. It said:

Our poll numbers convey what the public mediate our fable since 2019. We is no longer going to faux to any extent additional that ‘the concept is working’. We personal to interchange course urgently.

At No 10, they both did no longer get dangle of the message, or are ignoring it. Downing Road has despatched out its readout from this morning’s cupboard meeting and it shows that Rishi Sunak stays very committed to the line that his concept is working. A No 10 spokesperson said:

The prime minister asked the work and pensions secretary for an update on at the present time’s labour market statistics. He said the stats confirmed the concept is working, with payroll employment at a fable high, precise wages growing for seven months in a row, and our affirm of being inactive payment is under the US, France, and Italy.

The prime minister changed into to an update on fling to slash crime and produce our streets safer. The prime minister said our crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour is working, with violent and neighbourhood crime halved since 2010. He added that to reinforce this we’re constructing 20,000 fresh penal complex areas, the greatest programme since the Victorian age, which he funded as chancellor.

In step with the No 10 readout, James Cleverly, the house secretary, additionally told cupboard that police recruitment used to be up, total crime used to be down, and more a ways off places offenders had been being deported. And Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, told colleagues that reoffending by ragged prisoners used to be down from 31% in 2010 to 25%. That used to be because of “work to make definite prisoners launched from penal complex are no longer left with out a affirm to stay or a job, with the volume offenders in work six months after leaving penal complex doubling within the final year”, No 10 said.

Hester ‘no longer a racist’, says buddy and ragged Tory treasurer Lord Marland

Lord Marland, a businessman and ragged Conservative get dangle of together treasurer, describes himself as a buddy of Frank Hester. In an interview with LBC, he said that he did no longer mediate Hester used to be racist. He said:

I do know Frank Hester as it turns out and the first demand I quiz myself is ‘is he a racist’? And the Frank Hester I do know isn’t.

He’s a global businessman, he travels widely abroad – he does heaps of a commercial in Jamacia, he does commercial in Malaysia, in Bangladesh – so he’s no longer a racist.

He made some dejected remarks that operate sound racist, and rather rightly he’s apologised for them. That’s my behold on the topic. My overriding ingredient is that he’s no longer a racist.

Requested if he belief the Conservative get dangle of together ought to return the £10m it bought from Hester, Marland said it used to be no longer for him to claim.