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and bespoke £3,500 Henry Herbert suits. And there is the small matter of his personal fortune. He and his tech heiress wife, Akshata Murty, are worth an estimated £730m. He is quite evidently not one of us, as Margaret Thatcher might have said.
This is a man so removed from the everyday world that he appears to get a kick from role-playing service-sector jobs. In 2020, he impersonated ato promote his ill-fated “eat out to help out” scheme after lockdown. Now he’s serving a full English with a smile. What began as a publicity stunt is beginning to look dangerously like a fetish. And there he was last Friday in front of the cameras, serving breakfast to the down and out when Dean appeared.