Andrew Neil goes the full Monte Carlo

Veteran pundit Andrew Neil remains typically furious about almost everything to do with Britain, ranting in recent days about “phoney cowboy” Keir Starmer, “dancing numpty” Zach Polanski, Rachel Reeves’s “strange, nostalgic, outdated obsession” with the EU and, on more than one occasion, Labour’s scurrilous belief in giving more money to poor people so their lives will be a little less desperate. 

“Starmer and Reeves would rather pay people to do nothing than pay to defend the nation – leaving us more vulnerable than at any time in our history” ran the headline to a typically thundering column in the Daily Mail this week.

Yet while Neil is entitled to his big opinions on how your tax money should be spent, it’s unclear how much he is now contributing to the nation’s riches. The former Sunday Times editor and BBC Daily Politics host, who helped launch and enjoyed a short-lived dalliance with the fledgling GB News  has moved to Monaco,  according to new filings at Companies House.

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The tax haven, long favoured by racing drivers and tycoons, officially became his ‘country of residence’ from April 15, according to the filing by Glenburn Enterprises, Neil’s long-standing artistic creation company.

Set up in 1990, Glenburn reported £3.7 million in assets in its 2025 accounts, which were filed last month. The broadcaster’s riches included £2 million in subsidiary company investments, £1.4 million in investment property, £262,000 in monies due in, as well as £69,000 in cash. Its net worth comes in at £3.5 million after accounting for bills, including £25,000 in “other taxation and social security”.

Neil recently told a critic on X that “I find the South of France efficacious for someone in his semi retirement phase of life.” Meanwhile, an online sales pitch from an investment bank lists Monaco’s benefits as including “luxury living, stunning Mediterranean scenery, political stability and a highly favourable tax system”, saying the principality boasts “exceptional tax benefits and financial privacy – the key to wealth preservation and luxury living”.