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 II and Camilla, Queen Consort.

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