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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jim Waterson

Rishi Sunak has electricity grid upgraded to heat his private pool

Rishi Sunak’s constituency home
Sunak bought the property for £1.5m in 2015, shortly after becoming the MP for Richmond. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer

Rishi Sunak’s new private heated swimming pool uses so much energy that the local electricity network had to be upgraded to meet its power demands, the Guardian has been told.

While many Britons are facing increased electricity bills – and are trying to limit their energy usage – extra equipment was recently installed in a remote part of North Yorkshire to provide extra capacity from the National Grid to the prime minister’s constituency home.

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