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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Helena Horton and Lauren Almeida

Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground

A poster from the Everyone Hates Elon campaign on a billboard above a takeaway curry shop in Manchester, with a photo of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, surrounded by fluttering bank notes, alongside the words 'If you can afford Manchester United you can pay more tax'
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who fled Britain for Monaco in 2018, featured in a poster produced by Everyone Hates Elon, a UK political campaign group. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

London was once globally renowned as the “billionaires’ playground”, where the world’s super-rich could relax in the Georgian townhouses of Mayfair undisturbed by the grasping hand of the state.

But if recent complaints by fleeing ultra-high net worth individuals are to be believed, the city is no longer as welcoming for those who consider themselves to be Britain’s most-persecuted minority.

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