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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Ben Quinn

Two Tory donors pay £25,000 to attend Reform fundraising dinner

Mohamed Amersi and Bassim Haidar
Mohamed Amersi, left, and Bassim Haidar have between them given more than £1m to the Conservatives. Composite: Blokman Ilhan/Anadolu/Getty Images/BH Holdings

Two major Conservative donors, Bassim Haidar and Mohamed Amersi, paid £25,000 each to attend a Reform fundraising dinner on Tuesday night, and sources say the party brought in pledges of more than £1m beforehand from businesspeople.

Reform sources said ticket prices ranged from £10,000 for the dinner to £25,000 for a seat at the top table with Nigel Farage at Oswald’s in Mayfair, central London.

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