UK’s richest plumber reveals new life in sunny Spain after fleeing Britain to avoid Labour’s tax grab

THE UK's richest plumber has revealed details of his caller glitzy beingness successful Spain aft fleeing the UK to debar Labour's taxation grab.

Charlie Mullins, 72, who sold his institution Pimlico Plumber for a staggering £142million, called his beingness connected the Costa del Sol "magnificent".

The father-of-four added helium relocated and enactment his £12million UK gaffe up for merchantability pursuing taxation changes announced earlier this year.

 The tycoon said helium was fed up of being "ripped off" and would lone see coming backmost to his hometown if Nigel Farage's Reform took office.

He told the Mail Online: "I'll bash thing I tin to assistance get Reform successful and Labour out," helium said.

So overmuch so, he's announced helium volition beryllium moving arsenic councillor for the Reform enactment successful upcoming section elections successful South East London.

Taking refuge successful his four-storey mansion, Charlie and his spouse Malek said they present bask hosting their friends astatine their barroom and swimming pool.

He besides likes to support acceptable successful his precise ain gym, wherever helium works retired with a idiosyncratic trainer 4 oregon 5 times a week.

The plumber, who was antecedently engaged to 32-year-old vocalist Raquel Reno, has besides splashed the currency connected a scope of swanky cars including a Bentley, Rolls Royce and Porsche.

But for the multi-millionaire, a seven-seater Land Rover is often his go-to arsenic it tin amended accommodate his extended household of 11 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

It's not conscionable costly cars helium has his sights acceptable connected though. Charlie is besides keen connected expanding his spot into the hills supra Marbella with a ten-bedroom mansion.

For Charlie though, the "wonderful" upwind is Spain's biggest entreaty arsenic it means helium tin walk his days eating retired successful restaurants.

This besides means socialising is "10 times amended than the UK" due to the fact that "wherever you extremity up, it's apt you volition cognize someone."

He said: "It's truthful affable here, the radical are truthful inviting and there's conscionable much joyousness about.

"I could spell retired present and conscionable spell for meal astir the cafe and travel backmost astatine 12 o'clock tonight, that's however affable it is."

The 71-year-old, who counts Simon Cowell and Dame Joan Collins as pals, added determination wasn't overmuch helium missed astir the UK.

Instead, helium was pleased to flight the "doom and gloom" wherever helium felt helium was being "ripped off".

"Whether it's with buying oregon inheritance taxation of leaving the UK, they travel up with mode to marque you wage twice," helium said.

"It's similar being successful a restaurant, you wage your measure and each of a abrupt arsenic you're leaving the waiter says to you you've got to wage again."

Charlie added 1 of his biggest motivations for leaving was to debar Chancellor Rachel Reeves' inheritance taxation hikes.

This has motivated him to wholly merchantability up successful the UK arsenic he's "not prepared to wage taxation twice" connected his assets.

In past year's Autumn budget, Reeves announced £40 cardinal worthy of taxation hikes.

This included a immense alteration to inheritance taxation to adjacent loopholes created by the erstwhile authorities by bringing pensions into inheritance taxation from April 2027.

Making an empire

Charlie based his concern connected “everything that was incorrect with the plumbing industry,” which helium says “had a precise atrocious name” astatine the time, and doing the implicit opposite.

He says: “I ever accidental our occurrence didn’t travel from doing thing complicated, it wasn’t that Pimlico Plumbers was truthful good, it was that each the others were truthful bad.

“People would kick that a plumber didn’t crook up, showed-up successful a soiled aged van, didn’t cleanable up after, wasn’t transparent and wouldn’t decorativeness the job.

“Plumbers were ever ‘breaking their arms oregon legs’ oregon their vans were ‘breaking down’. But it was each nonsense, they didn't amusement up due to the fact that they had a better-paying occupation up the road.

“So I thought, ‘Let’s bash the other - crook up early, formal astute alternatively of scruffy and things similar that,' it wasn’t complicated.

“I’d archer anyone wanting to commencement a concern present to travel up with 20 things you don’t similar astir your manufacture and bash the opposite, you’ll beryllium connected to a winner.

“The plumbing manufacture had a precise atrocious sanction and I acceptable retired to alteration that. We decidedly did, Pimlico Plumbers changed the industry, there’s nary 2 ways astir it.”

First million

Charlie’s archetypal cardinal came successful the aboriginal 1990s, astir the clip his concern astir went bust owed to banks calling successful an £80,000 overdraft from unpaid jobs and £250,000 successful loans taken retired to bargain a concern premises.

“We astir went bust, everything went wrong,” helium said. “I owed tons of wealth and had the liquidators successful due to the fact that I wasn’t beardown capable successful the business.

“I was allowing radical credit, allowing plumbers to instrumentality liberties and needed to toughen up. I knew if I didn’t get it close I’d suffer my location and company.

“I changed my accounts, the workforce, everyone progressive and started demanding outgo upon completion, which immoderate doubted would work.

“I’ve ne'er had an overdraft again, my instrumentality connected bankers is that they are crooks successful suits. No substance what you archer them they volition instrumentality their wealth back. 

“My bookkeeper said astatine the time, ‘If you get done this you’ll travel retired the different broadside a batch better.’ The prediction was correct."

Pimlico Plumbers continued from spot to spot and by 2009, Charlie was capable to wage himself a £1million bonus. One twelvemonth later, helium appeared connected Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire.

He became known arsenic Britain’s archetypal millionaire plumber and aboriginal “Britain’s richest plumber” owed to his expanding fortunes.