Chancellor: Tories are transparent about donations
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says the Conservative Party "fully complies with all the requirements to be transparent about donations", as reports claim Frank Hester made a further £5m donation to the party. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had already faced pressure to return Frank Hester's £10m donation after he made alleged racist and misogynistic remarks about Diane Abbott. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Well, we follow all the right procedures when it comes to declaring our donations and when
00:07 the time is right we will declare any donations that we've received recently.
00:11 We absolutely are transparent.
00:13 We follow all the rules, the regulations, we believe in that transparency.
00:19 Many of the laws about it we actually passed ourselves and the Conservative Party fully
00:23 complies with all the requirements to be transparent about our donations.
00:27 That's a question for the Prime Minister who decides when we're going to have the general
00:32 election.
00:33 But what we know today is that May 2nd is going to be a very important day for local
00:38 council and mayoral elections and the Conservative Party will be putting all our effort into
00:45 campaigning for the brilliant candidates that we've got up and down the country.