Tuesday, October 1, 2013

The Cameron Millions: Family fortunes the Tories don't want you to see




‘David Cameron portrays himself as an average family man in touch with the concerns of recession-hit voters – but the truth is very different.

The multi-millionaire Tory leader, 43, comes from a hugely wealthy background while wife Samantha’s relatives are even richer and more upper-crust.

Swimming in cash and cossetted by privilege, the couple have still used taxpayers’ cash as well as family money to scale the property ladder. Cameron, a distant cousin of the Queen, has also called on influential relatives and connections to get a leg up at key points in his career.

Tory strategists try hard to disguise the true extent of his fortune.’

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