AFP, London :
Britain’s super-rich “kept calm and carried on making billions” despite worries about Brexit, according to The Sunday Times newspaper’s Rich List for 2017, with more billionaires living in the country than ever before.
In the past 12 months, the total wealth of Britain’s richest 1,000 individuals and families surged 14 percent to œ658 billion ($854 billion, 777 billion euros), the paper said.
It said that there are now more UK-based billionaires than ever before, at 134.
Industrialist brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja topped the list with a combined wealth of œ16.2 billion, up œ3.2 billion over the previous year.
Britain’s super-rich “kept calm and carried on making billions” despite worries about Brexit, according to The Sunday Times newspaper’s Rich List for 2017, with more billionaires living in the country than ever before.
In the past 12 months, the total wealth of Britain’s richest 1,000 individuals and families surged 14 percent to œ658 billion ($854 billion, 777 billion euros), the paper said.
It said that there are now more UK-based billionaires than ever before, at 134.
Industrialist brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja topped the list with a combined wealth of œ16.2 billion, up œ3.2 billion over the previous year.
