The Sunday Times Rich List: How the pandemic spawned more billionaires than ever
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🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The annual Sunday Times Rich List has identified a record-breaking 24 new billionaires this year. For many of us, it's been a bleak year with recurring lockdowns, businesses closed and workers furloughed. So how have these individuals managed to generate so much wealth, and what happens after the boom?
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| 1:04.8 | For many of us, this has been a bleak year, a global pandemic, recurring lockdowns, |
| 1:12.7 | businesses closed, workers furloughed. |
| 1:16.3 | But for some, this year has seen a spectacular boom. |
| 1:21.4 | More people have become billionaires over the last 12 months than at any point in British history. |
| 1:28.2 | We found 171 billionaires this year up 24 and last year. |
| 1:32.5 | Their collective wealth just over 597 billion pounds. |
| 1:36.9 | The annual Sunday Times Rich List has identified a record-breaking 24 new billionaires this year. |
| 1:45.5 | That's the biggest jump in the 33 years since the Sunday Times began tracking the fortunes |
| 1:51.8 | of the UK's richest residents. |
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