55-year-old Michael Platt, born and raised in the city, has been crowned the youngest billionaire in the UK with the highest net worth in the top 10 after amassing an estimated £12.7bn fortune.
‘Wealth and beggary, vice and virtue, guilt and innocence, repletion and the direst hunger ... the great heart of London throbs in its Giant breast.’
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