The 40-year old former Goldman Sachs investment banker is worth hundreds of millions of pounds, while his wife is even richer. As Britons battle for every penny, many believe he is now completely out of touch.
The MP for Richmond earns a base salary of £79,468 a year, with his Chancellor’s salary of £71,090 hiking the total to £150,558.
That would be riches for most people, but is only a small part of his overall wealth. As we previously reported, Sunak has a total net wealth of £200 million, mostly from his portfolio of property investments.
Wife Akshata Murthy has shares in her father’s firm Infosys worth £430 million, while an investigation by The Guardian found his wife’s family has a “multi-million-pound portfolio of shareholdings and directorships”.
Claims that the couple haven’t declared these correctly as required by the ministerial code have been rejected, but that wealth still spells political trouble for the ambitious Chancellor.
Being wealthy wasn’t a problem when Sunak was showering the nation with £400 billion of pandemic support during Covid lockdowns.
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