Given the dire state of CCHQ finances, it was just as well that Rishi managed to flog a Swarovski-laden portrait of himself at the Tory Winter Party at the Savoy. The portrait went for £25,000.

The other prizes were fairly stereotypical: shooting at Warter Priory in Yorkshire for £40,000, and an F1 trip to Abu Dhabi for £50,000. And hacks say CCHQ has a cash problem…