1,000 richest get much better off

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Britain's richest people are wealthier than ever before with a combined fortune of £518.975 billion, according to this year's Sunday Times Rich List.

Amid talk of the "squeezed middle", the 1,000 richest Britons now own the equivalent of a third of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP), with their combined wealth rising 15.4% on last year's total of £449.654 billion.