The plot to shoot Diane Abbot dominated PMQs. The Tory donor, Frank Hester, reportedly said that the MP for Hackney North inspired violent thoughts in him, and made him want to ‘hate all black women.’ Sir Keir Starmer asked if Rishi Sunak was happy to be bankrolled by someone who harboured fantasies about gunshots and bullet wounds.

Rishi replied in kind and trotted out insults like ‘scum’ and ‘Nazi’ that have been hurled at the Tories by Labour members over the years. He pleaded for tolerance towards his financial backer. ‘He has rightly apologised. And that remorse should be accepted.’

Rishi could perhaps offer Hester a jaunt in a navy Chinook – but they’re probably all being repaired

Sir Keir answered Rishi’s point by insisting that the Labour movement had been transformed under his leadership. ‘He’s describing a Labour party that no longer exists,’ he said. A strange comment that might have exposed him to ridicule in different circumstances. But today Rishi was under attack from all sides. Labour’s Abdul Khan told him to ‘get his house in order’ and the SNP’s Stephen Flynn called Hester ‘downright bloody dangerous’.

Surely, it wouldn’t be long before Hitler was mentioned and the H-word was duly supplied by Mark Francois. However, he chose a different issue, the underfunding of Britain’s military. Evoking the 1930s, he said that Chamberlain had failed to recognise the growing menace of Hitler and this oversight had led to ’50 million deaths’. Francois demanded the expansion of our defence budget and he added that he spoke as ‘the son of a D-Day veteran’. Why would that make a difference?

This is the fatuous sophistry peddled by Sadiq Khan (son of a bus driver) and Keir Starmer (son of a tool-maker) who evidently support the aristocratic belief that moral superiority is conferred at birth and that virtue is a heritable quality.

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13.03.2024

The plot to shoot Diane Abbot dominated PMQs. The Tory donor, Frank Hester, reportedly said that the MP for Hackney North inspired violent thoughts in him, and made him want to ‘hate all black women.’ Sir Keir Starmer asked if Rishi Sunak was happy to be bankrolled by someone who harboured fantasies about gunshots and bullet wounds.

Rishi replied in kind and trotted out insults like ‘scum’ and ‘Nazi’ that have been hurled at the Tories by Labour members over the........

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