Technology boss frank hester who donated £10 million to the Party Last Year is said to have made the comments in 2019. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made comments that the Prime Ministers spokesperson has described as Racist And Wrong. Its like trying not to be racist. But you see diane abbott on the tv, frank hester is reported to have said in 2019, and you just want to hate all black women because shes there, and i dont hate all black women at all, but i think she should be shot. Mr hester has apologised and said that he abhors racism. In a statement he said that he accepts that he made comments that were rude about diane abbott, but said his criticism had nothing to do with her
We are live in beijing with the fallout. And how meta is planning to keep folks using the platform longer here is a hint artificial intelligence. It is tuesday, august 1st, 2023. You are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im frank holland. Lets kickoff with the new month of trading with the check on u. S. Stock futures taking a look right now. Lower across the board all three indices at the lows of the premarket it is early. The dow looks to open 88 points lower. This after stocks locked in a month of solid gains with the s p and nasdaq capping off five straight winning months. Longest such win streak since 2021 when it comes to yeartodate, the yousuperlatives get better. The strongest gain in the first rece seven months of the year for the s p. For the nasdaq, look further back up 37 y year to date the best since 1975. Big gains so far a lot of history made this market year. We are looking at the bond market the 10year treasury benchma
we begin this hour with the urgent and dangerous situations that are unfolding today as we begin this new year here on the southern border and in the middle east. a memorial for kassam soleimani is the scene where hundreds are dead and over a hundred injuries that as hezbollah warns that they have their finger on the trigger following the killing of a senior hamas leader in beirut. pete hegseth and trey yingst are standing by with more. first, there are dozens of house republicans, you have seen them in the moments, getting off the buses. they re at the southern border right now. fox has confirmed that next week the much-discussed impeachment hearing for alejandro mayorkas who is in charge of our border with the homeland security under his watch, that hearing for his impeachment will get underway. moments ago, karine jean-pierre blamed republicans for the record surge every day, every month is a new record in the numbers of people that cross our border. we re about to hear fr
in iowa where a key battle kicks off not many months away. sir? no, that s not the case, neil. not many months away. look at what is happening here. you have a number of candidates coming to iowa. the former president will be here in a couple hours from now. he s doing that fox news town hall with sean hannity. he had a full day in iowa. close to the des moines area. the former president is just finishing up his final campaign event of the day. part of a two-day trip to iowa. got here last night as governor ron desantis left for new hampshire. desantis has been arguing that the next president, republican, needs to serve two terms if elected again, trump would only have one term left. trump is responding. we have to do it again. we have to bring it back. one of our opponents, they were out there saying that we can be there eight years and it takes eight years. no, it takes six months to fix it or less. keeping in the spirit, desantis shot back at an event in new hampshir
line on spending in this debt ceiling issue. they re pushing for a work for welfare program. that was an issue that tim scott get behind today. he announced some very big ned. joe biden and the left are attacking every ladder that i m trying to climb. that s why i m announcing today that i m running for president of the united states. of america! a lot of energy in that crowd today for tim scott. this is going to be a very big week, folks. we expect ron desantis will also get in the race within days. so what do gop voters think? they look over these candidates. let s ask them. jeremy slagle is from ohio. donna sharp is from georgia and johnny gardner is also an ohio voter. great to have you with us today. thank you very much for being with us. jeremy, let s start with you. what did you think of tim scott s announcement today. i think it s the first time i ve been moved to tears by a president somebody coming out and announcing. it was very emotional for me. his faith,