Inventor Sir James Dyson has topped the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time after increasing his net worth by £3.6bn in a year.
The Brexit-backing entrepreneur made his fortune with the invention of the bag-less vacuum cleaner which went on sale in 1993.
He replaced Indian-born businessmen Sri and Gopi Hinduja at the summit.
The coronavirus pandemic is being blamed for a fall in the overall wealth of the UK’s richest people.
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