Hester: Conservative Party must confirm if it received another £5 million

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Responding to reports that the Conservative Party is "sitting on" another £5 million in donations from Frank Hester, LiberalDemocrat Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain MP said:

"The Conservative Party must urgently confirm whether these reports are true and if so hand this tainted money back.  

"The Conservative Party has dragged its feet in condemning these racist remarks for what they are. If that was in any way linked to this £5 million donation it would show this scandal is even worse than we thought.

"People like Hester and his attitudes need to be nowhere near our politics. Conservative politicians need to learn that just because someone gives you millions of pounds that does not make the inexcusable, excusable."

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Notes to Editors:

The reporting can be found here.