The UK’s richest people

The UK’s richest people were announced in The Sunday Times’ annual roundup on Friday, including the founder of Dyson vacuum cleaners, as well as JK Rowling and Elisabeth Murdoch.

The list comes at a time when the majority of Brits are feeling the burden of the cost of living crisis.

At the top of the list came billionaire brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja, who own the Mumbai-based conglomerate Hinduja Group. They were reported to own GBP 28.47 billion together. Other key names to make it onto the list, albeit further down, included Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, ranking at 222nd place out of 250 with a joint GBP 730m of wealth. Sunak is reportedly the richest serving MP in history.

Chelsea manager Roman Abramovich dropped 20 places on the newspaper’s list this year, after his wealth was believed to have been cut from GBP 12 billion down to GBP 6 billion. He was one of the Russian figures to have been hit with sanctions in light of the Russian war in Ukraine. Alisher Usmanov also saw a fall, from sixth to eleventh place, with an estimated wealth of GBP 10bn this year.

In terms of demographics, only seven of the people on the list were women, while 116 of the richest were men, and a further 78 were listed under the grouping “man with family.” Income from property was the most common primary source of wealth, with 43 percent of people on the list benefiting from it. (Statista)