In an interview with Sky News, Britain’s seventh-richest man, Jim Ratcliffe, who moved to tax-free Monaco in 2020, took aim at people receiving state support and immigrants. 'You can’t afford … you can’t have an economy with 9 million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,' he said. 'I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it’s 70 million. Figures from the Office for National Statistics indicate Ratcliffe’s claim is incorrect. Keir Starmer has said Ratcliffe's claim was “offensive and wrong” and called on the Man Utd co-owner to apologise for his comments.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2026 21:29 UTC