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Thursday 03 July 2014 9:08 pm  |  Updated:  Wednesday 29 May 2019 8:44 pm

Tory tennis match sells for £160,000

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A BRITISH banker – and wife of a former Putin government minister – splashed out £160,000 for a game of tennis with PM David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson, it emerged yesterday. Lubov Chernukhin bought the top lot in the auction at the Tory party fundraiser on Wednesday. Morning Wire revealed that a bottle of champagne sold for £45,000 at the party.

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