Tory donor pays £25,000 for dinner with Jeremy Hunt as ball raises £200,000

Photograph of cabinet auctioned for £110,000 at fundraising event while stay in Caribbean beach house fetches £50,000

A Conservative donor paid £25,000 on Thursday night for a multi-course Japanese dinner with the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, as part of an annual ball that raised more than £200,000 for the party, the Guardian has learned.

The unknown bidder won the exclusive dinner for themselves and three other people during the event at the five-star Raffles hotel in Westminster, which was attended by Rishi Sunak and several of his cabinet ministers.