Charlie Mullins

Mullins is the son of a factory worker father and a bartender and cleaner mother.[2] When he was born, they "lived in a couple of rooms in Camden", before moving to the Rockingham Estate in London's Elephant and Castle, where he grew up, and left school at 15 with no qualifications.[2][3]

Mullins was apprenticed to a local plumber at age 15, and started his own business in 1979, operating from a basement in Pimlico.[2]

He is known for his collection of plumbing-themed licence plates, used on the company's vehicles, and perhaps worth £1.5 million.[3]

As of September 2018, Mullins has an estimated net worth of £70 million.[1]

Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017.[2] He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.[4]

In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed).[2] In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.[5]

He divorced his first wife, Lynda. He has since married Julie Anne Morris.[6][3]

His sons Scott, a director, and Samm, a plumber who manages Pimlico Plumbing & Heating Supplies, work for the company.[7]

• Bog-Standard Business: How I Took the Plunge and Became the Millionaire Plumber, 2015,288pp, ISBN 978-1784183356, John Blake Publishing Ltd.

• Official website