Inventors and industrialists, football club owners, Liverpool’s richest man, pop stars and asylum kings, along with a couple from Suffolk who became billionaires overnight, the Rich List is full of risk-taking, resilience and reward — along with luck.
Taking the top spot for the fourth successive year is Gopi Hinduja, 85, and family with a fortune of £35 billion. Hinduja lost £5.2 million a day over the past 12 months but is investing in electric chargers for vehicles in the UK.
The Sunday Times’s annual examination of the finances of Britain’s most affluent individuals and families has been one of the toughest to compile due to Trump’s tariffs and the ensuing stock market turbulence.
The result is a stark reflection of the state of