10 h. ago The Guardian view on billionaire Britain: tax wealth fairly or face democratic unravelling | Editorial

Without bold reform which makes the rich pull their weight, rising inequality risks eroding public trust and fracturing social stabilityBritain for the last decade has experienced a bleak paradox: rising child poverty alongside a dramatic increase in billionaire wealth. This inequality has been tolerated partly because greed has been rehabilitated as virtue. The Billionaire Britain report, published this week by the Equality Trust, reveals what many instinctively feel but few in parliament will admit: the UK economy has become a machine for the upward redistribution of wealth.Using Sunday Times Rich List data, the report found that the 50 wealthiest UK families now own more than the poorest half of the population combined. Their opulence is no accident. It’s largely built on the labour and consumption of those 34 million other Britons. The gains of society are being hoarded by those least in need. There’s a lexicon that sells it all as “entrepreneurial spirit” and bus...

Economics

4 d. ago Just one in every 10 people actually trust politicians to tell the truth

A whopping 82 per cent of people polled in the North West don't trust MPs to tell the truth 'much' or 'at all', the survey suggests

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6 d. ago Welsh billionaire you've probably never heard of who wasn't on the Sunday Times Rich List

Gren Thomas grew up in Swansea and was working underground in south Wales at the age of 16. He left the country to find his fortune, and ended up finding diamonds....

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6 d. ago It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’ | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as suchDhananjayan Sriskandarajah is chief executive of the New Economics Foundation and author of Power to the PeopleOnce again, it’s the Hinduja family. Gopi Hinduja and his family, who run the Hinduja Group, are cited as Britain’s richest family in the latest Sunday Times rich list. The big story so far seems to be that their wealth has dropped to £35.3bn from £37.2bn the year before. But that story, and much of the discussion there will be this weekend, risks missing the real story. “Rich list” is barely the right description for the extreme wealth we should be talking about.In 1989, when the Sunday Times first published its annual rich list, to be included someone would need to have 6,000 times the wealth of the average person in the UK. That’s already a pretty big gap – but this has now tripled to more than 18,000 times the average, according to a study by the University ...

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7 d. ago King Charles is now as rich as Rishi Sunak as his wealth jumps £30m to £640m

The monarch has jumped up the Sunday Times Rich List thanks to the wad of inheritance he got from his late mum when she died and is now worth more than half a billion quid

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7 d. ago Rory McIlroy's huge net worth now after shock divorce twist and tennis star break

The Northern Irish golfer's current wealth has been revealed in the new Sunday Times Rich List

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7 d. ago Andy Murray and wife Kim's new net worth emerges after losing huge sum in hotel

The former tennis star features on the new Sunday Times Rich List after retiring from the sport last year

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7 d. ago Who is Gopi Hinduja? Businessman tops Sunday Times Rich List

The businessman and his family are worth £35 billion according to The Sunday Times Rich List 2025

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7 d. ago Time for a wealth tax, say Patriotic Millionaires as Rich List shows £772bn in the hands of just 350 families

Call comes after the the 2025 Sunday Times Rich List revealed the annual catalogue of Britain’s wealthiest people

Economics

7 d. ago King Charles' staggering fortune revealed and why he's twice as rich as late Queen

Calculations by the Sunday Times Rich List has suggested that King Charles is richer than David and Victoria Beckham - and even his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II

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7 d. ago The Beckhams' astronomical net worth is revealed in the latest Rich List amid their ongoing feud with eldest son Brooklyn and wife Nicola Peltz

The Beckhams' astronomical net worth has been revealed after the Sunday Times dropped their annual Rich List highlighting the wealthiest stars of 2025.

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7 d. ago Sunday Times Rich List 2025: The richest celebrities, musicians and famous faces

A number of celebrities and famous faces feature in the annual rich list - including David and Victoria Beckahm and Harry Styles

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7 d. ago Who is the richest person in Britain 2025? Here are Britain's 11 wealthiest billionaires

There are significantly fewer billionaires in the UK than last year, but The Sunday Times rich list shows just how much extreme wealth still exists.

Economics

7 d. ago Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran and Elton John among musicians named on Sunday Times Rich List for 2025

Only a handful of musicians were featured on the annual wealth ranking

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7 d. ago Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari move pays dividends as net worth shoots up to almost £400m

Lewis Hamilton is not only one of Britain's most successful sports stars, he's also one of the wealthiest, as his lofty position in this year's Sunday Times Rich List demonstrates

Economics

7 d. ago Times Rich List: the UK's 19 richest people on 2025 Sunday Times Rich List

Britain's billionaires aren’t immune to the squeeze, and some are slipping down the list 📉

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7 d. ago Beckhams get huge boost and surprise reality star leads celebs on Sunday Times Rich List

David and Victoria Beckham have received a huge boost amid their family fallout as the Sunday Times Rich List features a surprise reality TV star with a huge bank balance

Politics

7 d. ago King Charles’s wealth swells to match Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty on UK rich list

Sunday Times says monarch’s personal fortune has risen to £640m, while that of ex-PM and wife has fallen to that levelBusiness live – latest updatesKing Charles’s personal fortune increased to £640m in the past year, making him as wealthy as the former prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, according to the Sunday Times rich list.The 76-year-old monarch, who acceded to the throne in 2022, saw a £30m increase in wealth and ranks joint 238th on the list of the UK’s wealthiest people and families.Gopi Hinduja and family (investors) – £35.3bn, down £1.9bnDavid and Simon Reuben (landlords) – £26.9bn, up £1.9bnSir Len Blavatnik (investor) – £25.7bn, down £3.5bnIdan Ofer (shipping) – £20bn, up £5.1bnThe Weston family (heirs and retail) – £17.7bn, up £3.2bnSir Jim Ratcliffe (chemicals) – £17bn, down £6.4bnLakshmi Mittal (steel) – £15.4bn, up £523mJohn Fredriksen (oil) – £13.7bn, up £816mIgor and Dmitry Bukhman (gaming) – £12.54bn, up £6.2bnMichael Platt (hedge fund) – £12.5...

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7 d. ago Gareth Bale removed from Sunday Times Rich list as Andy Murray and Rory McIlroy's incredible fortunes emerge

The 36-year-old has beaten three other major sporting stars to the title in the Sunday Times Rich List 2025

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7 d. ago Billionaire 'Asylum king' wealth soars by £265m in a year as he rises up Sunday Times Rich List rankings

Graham King, 57, is now estimated to be worth a staggering £1.015billion - up from £750million in just a year - thanks to his asylum empire providing accommodation, food and transport for migrants.

Economics