An African safari journey offered for £65,000 whereas a taking pictures weekend went for £37,000 and wine tasting for £30,000, together with a Chelsea vs. Arsenal tickets for £5,000.
Tory donors weren’t displaying the identical restraint they’ve been encouraging the remainder of the nation to indicate throughout the price of residing disaster, as they splashed a whole bunch of 1000’s of kilos on dinners with ministers and taking pictures weekends final night time.
MPs and senior ministers gathered on Monday night time for a celebration fundraiser on the V&A in south Kensington, the place playbook studies that there have been ‘250 authorities ministers, mega-rich donors, Tory apparatchiks and numerous hangers-on submitting into the museum at 7 p.m. for drinks’.
Visitors had been ‘served a starter of salmon tartare adopted by beef with asparagus mash’, earlier than the public sale began.
Dinner with Boris Johnson, Theresa Might and David Cameron went for round £120,000.
An African safari journey offered for £65,000 whereas a taking pictures weekend went for £37,000 and wine tasting for £30,000, together with a Chelsea vs. Arsenal tickets for £5,000.
In the meantime the federal government has been busy slashing staff’ residing requirements, climbing taxes to their highest stage for the reason that Nineteen Forties and claiming the remainder of us want to indicate wage restraint to fight rising inflation.
The Tory celebration didn’t nevertheless urge wage restraint when it was revealed only some weeks in the past that CEO’s at Britain’s greatest firms had been now being paid greater than earlier than the pandemic, with a median pay packet of £3.6m in 2021.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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