British asylum housing tycoon breaks into Sunday Times rich list
by Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6MWDD)
Graham King, whose firm is paid 3.5m a day to accommodate arrivals in the UK, listed among country's 350 richest people
An Essex businessman who won government contracts paying his firm 3.5m a day for transporting and accommodating asylum seekers has been named among the 350 richest people in the UK.
Graham King, the founder and majority owner of a business empire that includes Clearsprings Ready Homes, which won a 10-year Home Office contract for housing thousands of asylum seekers, was on Friday named alongside King Charles III, the prime minister and Sir Paul McCartney on the Sunday Times rich list of the wealthiest people.
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