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Today's Tory 'was it racist?' row centres a donor who's given the Conservatives more than ten million pounds.
The Guardian scoop revealed comments he made 5 years ago - centring on the now-suspended Labour MP Dianne Abbott whom he blamed for making him 'want to hate all black women'.
Rishi Sunak has called the comments 'clearly unacceptable' but refused to call them racist.
Is there any chance he'll chose to return the money? And why is the Tory party struggling with yet another case of the 'Lee Anderson's'.
Later, an exclusive: The prison in England where MORE inmates are on drugs than are NOT. What's going wrong with our prison system? And what's the knock-on effect?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Video Production: Rory Symon and Shane Fennelly
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