Does Rishi Sunak’s £730m fortune make him too rich to be PM?
by Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent from on (#650D7)
With a weekend home sporting a 400,000 pool and spa, the insanely rich' ex-chancellor is dividing opinion in his Yorkshire seat
If Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister, it will be first time in history that the occupants of No 10 Downing Street will be richer than the monarch in Buckingham Palace - and at a time when millions of Britons are struggling with a cost of living crisis.
Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, are sitting on a combined fortune of about 730m - roughly double the estimated 300m-350m wealth of King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort.
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