The list of the top 10 richest people in the UK stayed relatively the same this year, Gopi Hinduja remained at the top despite his and his family’s wealth falling by almost £2bn between 2024 and 2025 to £35.3bn. This is the fourth successive year the Hinduja family has been at the top of the Rich List.

Former prime minister Rishi Sunak has risen to 238th despite his and his wife, Akshata Murty’s wealth wife falling by £11m over the year as company shares at Infosys fell.

In second place are David and Simon Reuben, in their 80s, are part owners of Newcastle United Football Club and London property tycoons, and were big on the metals market. The brothers and their family moved up one spot this year, increasing their wealth by £1.89bn to £26.87bn, however they are almost £9bn behind the Hinduja family.

The Reubens displaced Sir Leonard Blavatnik from second, who fell by one spot after losing £3.52bn of wealth, leaving him with £25.72bn. Blavatnik, originally from Ukraine, owns stakes in Warner Music Group, and owns Deezer and DAZN streaming platforms.

Sir James Dyson moved into fourth despite he and his family’s wealth standing still at £20.8bn. The Sunday Times said this was due to ‘a lack of fresh financial data’.

Owner of a mass shipping empire, Idan Offer, moved into fifth in 2025, increasing his wealth by £5.16bn to £20.12bn. As well as running the shipping company Quantum Pacific Group, the Israeli billionaire owns 30% of Athletico Madrid football club.

The Weston family - Guy, George, Alannah and Galen – retail billionaires and owners of Wittington Investments, and former owner of Selfridges and Fortnum & Masons, increased their wealth by a vast amount, moving into sixth place with their estimated wealth being a huge £17.74bn from only £3.25bn.

One of the reasons for the shifting about in the top 10 is Manchester United FC part owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, and boss of Ineos, losing £6.47bn this year. His total wealth fell to £17.04bn and he now sits in seventh place on the Sunday Times Rich List, down from 4th. According to the Sunday Times Ineos’s total debt is now over £8.8bn, while the group lost over £124.4m. Ratcliffe also pumped £300m into Manchester United in 2024 and embarked on a swingeing cost cutting exercise.

Another football team owner sits behind Ratcliffe, Lakshmi Mittal and family, who own a stake in Queen Park Rangers FC. The family previously topped the rich list between 2005 and 2012. The family’s wealth sits at £15.44bn, increasing by over half a billion pounds this year.

John Fredriksen and family remain in ninth place with their shipping and oil company Seatankers, which made the family £816m this year, followed by Igor and Dmitry Bukhman’s online casino games vendor, who barrelled their way into tenth place from 27th in 2024.

The Russian brothers run mobile games platform Playtix which more than 100m people use each month. They are now British citizens and increased their wealth by almost £6.2bn this year.

There is not a new entry to the 300 long list of Britain’s richest until number 92, where Mark and Lindy O’Hare sit. The couple sold their financial data analysis business, Prequin, to BlackRock in December 2024 for £2.55bn. Their wealth stands at £1.83bn after selling their 80% share in the company.

The couple live just up the road from fellow Sunday Times Rich List member Ed Sheeran but have surpassed his wealth by almost £1.5bn. Similarly to their neighbour they enjoy the performing arts and are building an open-air theatre on their farmland where they hope to host the Royal Shakespeare Company one day.

There are just three more newcomers in the top 300, but none of them are billionaires. At 273rd is Brendan Kerr, amassing £500m over the year from his construction firm, Keltbray. Kerr is originally from Belfast and has worked in the construction industry since leaving school.

Former owners of the James Bond franchise, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, decided to sell of their creative control to Amazon MGM Studios for $1bn (£750m). They are valued at £450m and sit in 291st position.

Alex Kendall is the fourth newcomer in the top 300, the 29-year-old co-founder and director of self-driving vehicles developer and AI company Wayve. He is worth £439m and is from New Zealand originally but now runs the artificial intelligence company out of London.