What a plonker
The Sunday Mirror|July 02, 2023
Rishi’s £10 wine for school raffle after gifting US college $3MILLION
JOHN STEVENS
What a plonker

TIGHTWAD Rishi Sunak donated a £10 bottle of plonk to a hard-up school in his constituency fundraising to buy computers.

Despite being by far the richest Prime Minister in history, he picked the cheapest wine available in the House of Commons shop.

He could have chosen a bottle of champagne at £35 a pop or whisky at £45.

Instead, the PM opted for the bargain bottle of Merlot and even signed the label.

But the former investment banker has not always been a penny-pincher. He and his heiress wife, Akshata Murty, handed millions to a posh US college she went to and £100,000 to his old public school.

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