Reform lures Tory donors to £1m bash

Uh oh. Things aren’t looking good for the Tories – after a number of former Conservative donors paid five figures to attend a fundraiser for Reform UK. The luxurious do included Dom Pérignon champagne, bagpipers and even an opera singer. Talk about switching sides…

It transpires that multiple Tory donors attended the £1 million-raising Reform UK fundraiser – at which party leader Nigel Farage asked guests to give him the ‘ammunition’ he needs to soar to electoral victory. Audience members included Bassim Haidar and Mohamed Amersi, who each paid £25,000 for a VIP ticket to the event to sit with Farage – while other attendees paid £10,000 for a seat the Oswald’s dinner.

In fact, Haidar estimated at least eight significant former Conservative Party donors turned out for the occasion – while Amersi (who donated around £500,000 to the Tories between 2019 and 2021) remarked that a number of ‘disgruntled Tory donors’ appeared at the event, after praising defector Nick