SUNAKS DONATE $3M TO RICH U.S. COLLEGE

RISHI Sunak and his wife gave $3million to a mega-rich US college while UK schools scrimp and save to afford even the basics.

- JOHN STEVENS

The "absolutely staggering" donation paid for a computing lab at Claremont McKenna in California, where the PM's wife Akshata Murty studied economics and French as an undergraduate. Fees are $86,500 a year for tuition and board.

Its hi-tech facility with top-of-therange computers and state-of-the-art chairs at £650 a throw is named the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab in the couple's honour.

Their names appear on a sign outside and on the door. The donation in 2018 came three years after Mr Sunak became MP for Richmond in North Yorkshire.

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Claremont McKenna has a $1.1billion fortune thanks to benefactors - a sum beyond the wildest dreams of schools in Mr Sunak's own patch. Leyburn Primary, for example, had to put on a family fun day to buy computers.

The Parents, Teachers and Friends Association has raised £5,000, enough for nine computers to replace 15-yearold machines. But it needs another £10,000 to get 18 more so every pupil in a class can use one at the same time.

Mel Wise, chair of the PTFA, said: "It's a joke. Like Whitney Houston would say, the children are our future. Why are we not investing in them more?" The PTFA is holding a midsummer ball this month to raise further cash. Mr Sunak has said he is unable to attend but has offered to provide a raffle prize.