I don’t care about the dinner. I DO care that he intervened in a planning process to save Desmond £45,000,000 on his development, whilst the Tory Party accepted his donations. That £45 million could have built hundreds of social homes. THAT is sleaze. www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

Exclusive: Property tycoons gave Tories more than £11m in less than a year

Conservatives accused of being ‘in hock’ to developers as donations from property and construction soars amid ‘cash for access’ accusations against housing secretary Robert Jenrick.