SCOTLAND’S four richest families are wealthier than the poorest 20 per cent of the population, a new Oxfam report showed yesterday.

The Grant-Gordon whisky family, Highland Spring water owner Mahdi al-Tajir, North Sea oil magnate Sir Ian Wood and former Harrods owner Mohamed al-Fayed have a combined wealth of over £6 billion, according the Sunday Times Rich List.

In contrast, the Oxfam report concluded that “nearly one in five people in Scotland lives with the daily reality
of poverty, with women hit hardest.”