Rishi Sunak and his wife gave $3million to a mega-rich US college while UK schools scrimp and save to afford even the basics.
The “absolutely staggering” donation paid for a computing lab at Claremont McKenna in California, where the PM’s wife Akshata Murty studied economics and French as an undergraduate. Fees are $86,500 a year for tuition and board.
Its hi-tech facility – with top-of-the-range computers and state-of-the-art chairs at £650 a throw – is named the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab in the couple’s honour.
