Six Tory donors given top cultural posts since Boris Johnson became PM

Conservative party is shown to have been given more than 3m by appointees to roles at museums and galleries

Boris Johnson has appointed six Tory donors to help run the country's leading cultural institutions since entering Downing Street after an appeal to party backers to help rebalance the representation" on public bodies.

The donors, who have between them contributed more than 3m to party coffers, were appointed by the prime minister to the boards of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate and the British Museum.