TOFFS HAVE A BALL

SUPER-RICH Tory donors splashed tens of thousands of pounds on stomach-churning cosy dinners with ministers and hunting trips at the party’s Black and White fundraiser.

Among the mind-boggling winning auction bids was one of £12,500, for the grisly prize of sharing a meal cooked by Environment Secretary Michael Gove and wife Sarah Vine in their family home.

A chance to “walk in the footsteps of Winston Churchill” by having dinner with Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson in the Churchill War Rooms went for £30,000.

Dinner in Edinburgh with Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson sold for £15,000.

But even in a room full of toffs with money to throw away, lunch with Trade Secretary Liam Fox seemed an unedifying prospect and raised a measly £2000.

PM Theresa May showed her community spirit by telling guests she wanted to “defeat socialism”, before rattling her tin for donations.

Tory stalwarts Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson partied the night away at London’s Natural History Museum, in the presence of antiquated fossils – and a load of dinosaur skeletons.

In the last two years, organisers have been banned from putting Ministers up for auction.

But May reintroduced the sale this year. Bidders also had the chance to win a dinner with I’m a Celebrity stars Stanley Johnson and Georgia “Toff” Toffolo.

The wife-beating uncle of Duchess of Cambridge Kate and her sister Pippa Middleton was prominent in pictures taken at the event.

Gary Goldsmith, 52, was fined £5000 and given a community order last November after assaulting wife Julie-Ann, 47.