How much for dinner with David Cameron? Tories reveal list of ‘mega-rich donors’ who spend £50,000 to dine with the PM

It is a list that includes the founder of Betfair, the former chairman of Newcastle United, the son-in-law of Bernie Ecclestone and a host of bankers and oil tycoons, but what do they all have in common – aside from their wealth?

Ahead of a new report into political party donations from the Electoral Commission today, the Conservative Party has revealed the names of those belonging to its most exclusive dinner party guestlist.

In a page on its website that boasts of how the Tories “unlike Labour… are not funded by trade unions”, the party has listed the 32 people who pay a minimum of £50,000 a year for access to the Prime Minister himself, along with a host of other senior Conservative ministers .... http://www.independent.co.uk