First, you don’t just put down a sum of money — you have to buy shares.

He was recently pictured with Farage and Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy, amid reports he is preparing to donate a large sum of money to the party.

Mandelson had previously resigned as trade secretary after it emerged that he had borrowed a substantial sum from a fellow cabinet minister to buy a house.

Each local authority in England will receive a cut of the budget for the next financial year - which is £500m higher than the previous sum.

It's not the first banana-as-art that sold for a tidy sum.