With all this talk of the quite rich (£4 million plus the inheritance when he gets it) Conservative wannabe Chancellor, George Osborne, schmoozing hideously rich Russians, got me thinking. Just who are the wealthiest politicians in the world? The richest I can find is, yes, a Russian. Suleiman Kerimov, a Russian senator, is worth an eye-watering .5 billion. Next we have the Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. Now a lot has been made of the fact that Mayor Bloomberg takes a salary of just to be mayor, but that rather overlooks the fact he already has more than billion to his name. Coming in at number three is the right-wing French politician Serge Dassault, worth .9 billion.