Tories under fire for taking new  £5million donation from race row businessman Frank Hester who said Diane Abbott made him ‘hate all black women’ and ‘should be shot’

The Conservatives are today facing a major backlash on donations after it was confirmed the party has accepted a new £5 million gift from super-donor Frank Hester.

Mr Hester was at the center of a scandal earlier this year after it was revealed he made an outburst about it Work left-wing MP Diane Abbott said she made him “hate all black women” and “should be shot.”

Figures from the Electoral Commission today confirmed that Mr Hester, who had already given the Tories £10 million, has made new donations this year totaling £5 million.

The party defended accepting the money from his Leeds-based company, The Phoenix Partnership (TPPP), saying he had “apologized and shown remorse and we consider the matter resolved.”

But Ms Abbott slammed the decision this morning, saying it was “an insult to me and all black women”.

The donation data also showed that Labor received £180,000 from the artist Sir Grayson Perry.

It has also received £5 million from former Extinction rebellion financier Dale Vince.

Mr Hester was at the center of a scandal earlier this year after it emerged he made an outburst about left-wing Labor MP Diane Abbott, saying she made him ‘hate all black women’ and ‘should be shot dead’ .

Ms Abbott slammed the decision this morning, saying it was ‘an insult to me and all black women’.

Electoral Commission data released on Thursday showed the payments from Mr Hester’s software company, Phoenix Partnership, were made in January.

Last year he also handed the Tories £10 million, bringing the total from the party’s biggest donor to £15 million.

In March it was reported that Mr Hester said Ms Abbott – who became the first black woman elected to Parliament in 1987 – pushed him to “hate all black women” and “should be shot”.

At the time, the Conservatives were very cagey, amid rumors of a further £5 million benefit, refusing to confirm or deny that it had been received.

A Conservative Party spokesman said: ‘Mr Hester has rightly apologized for past comments. Mr. Hester has apologized and shown remorse and we consider the matter resolved.

‘The Conservative Party is funded by membership, fundraising and donations. All reportable donations are correctly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them and fully comply with the law. Indeed, such observations can be made about who our donors are precisely because our donations are published transparently.

‘Fundraising is a legitimate part of the democratic process. The alternative is taxpayer funding of political campaigns, which would mean less money available for frontline services such as schools and hospitals – or this money ending up in the pockets of trade unions such as the Labor Party.”

But Ms Abbott tweeted: ‘Rishi Sunak belatedly admitted that Frank Hester’s comments that ‘I made him hate all black women and should be shot’ were racist.

‘It now emerges that Sunak has accepted a further £5 million from him. An insult to me and all black women.”

The donation data also showed that Labor received £180,000 from the artist Sir Grayson Perry.

It has also received £5 million from former Extinction Rebellion financier Dale Vince.

Liberal Democrats deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: ‘How low can Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives go? If the Conservatives spend this money, they will be proudly funded by a man who has made the most appalling racist and sexist comments.

‘Ultimately the buck stops with Rishi Sunak. Sunak must intervene personally and ensure not a cent of this money is spent.”