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come to the conservatives and when did the diane abbott story come out? you are absolutely right. slightly confusing timeline but let me try my best to explain. injanuary, frank hester via his company the phoenix partnership gave £5 million to the conservative party but we did not know about that until this morning. in the meantime, in march, a huge row erupted. it really dominated politics for a few days over alleged comments leaked to the guardian that mr hester was said to have made in a staff meeting out is a software company about diane abbott which many people claimed were racist. at the time rishi sunak came under intense pressure to give back the money that frank hester had donated to the conservatives. at that point it was only known to have been the £10 million he had given last year. rishi sunak resisted giving back that money and ultimately did not,