Rishi Sunak and his heiress wife Akshata Murty have built up a joint fortune of £730million - with the Chancellor now the first frontline politician to be named in the Sunday Times Rich List.

The couple have been named at 222 in the top 250 richest people in the UK - just hours after Mr Sunak warned Britons they face 'tough' time due to the spiking cost of living and crippling inflation.

The Chancellor, 42, whose wife owns a £430million stake in her Indian tech billionaire father's IT business, is now the first frontline politician to feature in the annual wealth rankings since its inception in 1989, according to

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But social media users have raised eyebrows at the announcement, with some questioning how a multimillionaire Chancellor will be able to relate to the millions of Britons facing a cost of living squeeze.

One wrote: 'Does Rishi Sunak appearing in the Times Rich List give him a unique insight into working class families managing the cost of living crisis?'

Another wrote: 'Rishi Sunak and his wife are in the Times Rich List.

They're in the top 250 richest in the country! He's definitely going to help ordinary people isn't he.'

Another Twitter user described Mr Sunak's inclusion as a 'bitter pill to take'.

She wrote: Rishi Sunak and his wife making the Rich List is a bitter pill to take from a man in charge of the country's purse strings - when so many have been forced into poverty with the current cost of living crisis.'