Interesting Facts

The Queen has dropped out of the top 300 in the Sunday Times Rich List, for the first time. (The richest man in Britain is Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik with a fortune of £13.17bn! The Queen had been in the Rich List every year since she actually topped the first list in 1989, but you need a personal fortune of £100m to become one of the 1,000 richest people in the country. That's up £15m compared with the entry point of £85m in 2014. In 1997 it took a fortune of just £15m to join Britain's richest 1,000 people. Did I just say just £15m? Ridiculous!)

According to figures published by the Treasury, 6% of people in the UK earning more than £10million a year hand over less than ten per cent of their income to the Treasury. (The worst offenders are the super-rich, people who rake in £10million-plus a year. Just to put it into perspective this all means that some of the richest people in Britain are paying a lower rate of tax than their cleaners.)