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British Prime Minister Sunak earned £2.2 million
Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty are estimated to be worth a total of £529 million. photo
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Compared to the previous year, Rishi Sunak was able to increase his income again. The remuneration as a member of parliament and as a member of the government makes up the smaller part.
According to the letter from his tax advisors, Sunak received a good 84,000 pounds in diet for his MP mandate and 55,358 pounds in salary as a member of the government. By far the largest share was capital gains from an investment fund: Sunak received almost 1.8 million pounds here. There was also a further £300,000 in dividends and interest.
The former investment banker is considered the richest prime minister in British history. At the beginning of October 2023, the Sunday Times newspaper estimated the fortune of the 43-year-old and his wife Akshata Murty at a total of 529 million pounds. But that is largely due to Murty: she holds just under one percent of the shares in the Indian IT giant Infosys, which her father co-founded. Sunak has repeatedly come under fire for his wife’s financial interests because, among other things, he did not disclose his holdings in a company that benefited from state funding.
The prime minister’s wealth always plays a role in political debate. The couple, who have two daughters together, own a listed house in Sunak’s northern England constituency of Richmond, as well as two houses in posh west London and one in Santa Monica, California.