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These are the 20 richest people and families in the UK, according to the Sunday Times Rich List, released this morning.
Gopi Hinduja and family – £35bn
Sir Jim Ratcliffe – £29.7bn
Sir Leonard Blavatnik – £28.6bn
David and Simon Reuben and family – £24.4bn
Sir James Dyson and family – £23bn
Lakshmi Mittal and family – £16bn
Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family – £14.5bn
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho – £13.1bn
Kirsten and Jorn Rausing – £12bn
Michael Platt – £11.5bn
The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family – £9.9bn
Marit, Lisbet, Sigrid and Hans Rausing – £9.3bn
Andy Currie – £9.2bn
John Reece – £9.1bn
Alex Gerko – £9.1bn
Denise, John and Peter Coates and family – £8.8bn
Anders Holch Povlsen £8.5bn
Barnaby and Merlin Swire and family – £8.4bn
John Fredriksen and family – £8.3bn
Mikhail Fridman – £8.2bn
