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

Bassim Haidar says Nigel Farage's party worth considering' and Mohamed Amersi says energy at event was electric'

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.