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.