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| Conservative auction: Shoe shopping, Boris lunch and 'iron man' | Conservative auction: Shoe shopping, Boris lunch and 'iron man' |
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| Shoe shopping with Home Secretary Theresa May and tea with London Mayor Boris Johnson have been auctioned at a Conservative Party fundraiser. | Shoe shopping with Home Secretary Theresa May and tea with London Mayor Boris Johnson have been auctioned at a Conservative Party fundraiser. |
| Lots also included a 10k "iron man" race with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and a 2015 election manifesto signed by PM David Cameron. | Lots also included a 10k "iron man" race with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and a 2015 election manifesto signed by PM David Cameron. |
| A statue of Margaret Thatcher sold for £210,000, Buzzfeed reported. | A statue of Margaret Thatcher sold for £210,000, Buzzfeed reported. |
| A Tory spokesman said all donations to the party were declared and "comply fully with Electoral Commission rules". | A Tory spokesman said all donations to the party were declared and "comply fully with Electoral Commission rules". |
| The party's Black and White election fundraiser was held at the Grosvenor House hotel in London. | The party's Black and White election fundraiser was held at the Grosvenor House hotel in London. |
| The full list of auction lots, obtained by Buzzfeed, included: | The full list of auction lots, obtained by Buzzfeed, included: |
| Nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow, who was a guest at the event, said he estimated the auction raised over £3m. | |
| "I said to my wife, look, I'll go up to £10,000. Let's hope there's a teddy bear or something, because they usually start with something pretty low," he told the BBC's Daily Politics programme, | |
| "But the first one that went up was a week in Greece, and that went up for £75,000. End of story for me." | |
| A Tory spokesman said: "All donations to the Conservative Party are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them, and comply fully with Electoral Commission rules. | A Tory spokesman said: "All donations to the Conservative Party are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them, and comply fully with Electoral Commission rules. |
| "Any suggestion of impropriety by the party is malicious and defamatory and will be treated as such." | "Any suggestion of impropriety by the party is malicious and defamatory and will be treated as such." |