Tuesday 21 June 2022 12:43 AM Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak joins top Tories for summer party at London's V&A ... trends now
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak joined top Tories and guests for a Conservative summer party being held at V&A museum this evening.
The fundraising event on Monday night saw the Prime Minister and top members of his cabinet head to the London museum to woo Tory donors.
Also in attendance were billionaire Nick Candy and his Australian model wife Holly Valance, political strategist Lynton Crosby and former investment banker Lubov Chernukhin.
It came hours after the Prime Minister retook the reins of government yesterday afternoon, hours after undergoing surgery on a sinus problem.
The Prime Minister is feeling well and will be holding meetings this afternoon, after the minor operation under general anaesthetic at an unspecified London NHS hospital, his spokesman said.
Mr Johnson was admitted to hospital at 6am for the scheduled procedure, and returned to Downing Street around 10am.
It was the first time the PM had visited hospital since he suffered from Covid in the spring of 2020, and his spokesman said they two were not related.
Boris Johnson (pictured) and Rishi Sunak joined top Tories and guests for a Conservative summer party being held at V&A museum this evening
The fundraising event on Monday night saw the Prime Minister and top members of his cabinet head to the London museum to woo Tory donors (Rishi Sunak pictured)
Also in attendance were billionaire Nick Candy and his Australian model wife Holly Valance, pictured
Former investment banker and Conservative party donor, Lubov Chernukhin, who has donated more than £2million to the Tories
As they arrived at the party, guests were jeered and booed by a group of members of the PCS Union who gathered outside to campaign for better pay.
Earlier this year, Boris Johnson announced 91,000 job cuts across the civil service, with the secretaries of state asked to prepare plans for