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Great click bate, the telegraph are shithouese.

They own three mortgage-free rental properties that provide an annual income of £25,000; they have saved around £100,000 into their cash Isas and regularly maximise their annual £20,000 allowance; they each hold the maximum £50,000 in Premium Bonds and their pensions provide a combined annual income of £70,000.
Mr Ivens readily admits: “I’ve got more money than I could ever spend.”
But life was not always that way for Mr Ivens. He describes himself as a “shop floor lad made good”. Born as bombs rained down on Burton during the Second World War, Mr Ivens started his career as a building trade apprentice.
“I was a painter and decorator, but I had a lucky break to get in at Drakelow [Power Station] because it was who you knew in those days. I was 25. You need a bit of luck in life and I’ve had my share of luck.”
Mr Ivens spent 25 years at Drakelow, once the largest power station in Europe which closed in 2003, enjoying the six-and-a-half mile cycle to work each day and the handsome payout when he left aged 50."

Fuck, he's had it hard, really had to graft for it.