 — and the extra cash has to come from somewhere. 'I've never been a particularly big spender but since Christmas, I've only bought one t-shirt and a pair of jeans; there just isn't the money for anything else,' he says. Most of Harrison's money goes on petrol to drive to work each day, so he rarely socialises and hasn't seen his family){kind=link}
On the day it was clear he’d become prime minister, searches on Google for a single question shot up astronomically: ‘How rich is Rishi Sunak?’
Mr Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, have a net worth of £730,000,000, according to The Sunday Times Rich List, an annual catalogue of wealth.
Their fortune, more than double that of King Charles II, is enough to buy more than 300,000,000 free school meals, one Labour MP calculated.
Mr Sunak’s father-in-law founded Infosys, the outsourcing giant that enjoys millions of pounds worth of contracts with the British government, according to an analysis by public spending tracker Tussell.
But does this all make Mr Sunak too out of touch to guide the nation through a cost-of-living crisis, where basic essentials now carry eye-watering price tags?