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Britain's richest now £519 billion richer
Annual Sunday Times Rich List shows a 'phenomenal' year for plutocrats

by Rory MacKinnon

TRADE unionists, Labour MPs and social justice campaigners voiced renewed anger at Con-Dem coddling of billionaires yesterday following the Sunday Times’s release of the annual Rich List — a fawning who’s who of the wealthiest people in Britain.

The list’s author Philip Beresford declared a “phenomenal” year for the plutocrats’ personal wealth in 2013, with their combined fortunes soaring by 15.4 per cent since the Times’s last edition.

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