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Samuel Leeds

Samuel Leeds

British Influencer

Aug 7, 2026

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I mean, I am living proof of somebody that started with nothing and has built up a portfolio and has a good, I employ a lot of people.
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I've got multiple, I've got 21 companies in the UK and I increased the GDP.
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I create employment.
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I take, I built many houses, I develop properties and started from nothing.
0:21
And I think that a lot of left-leaning people like Gary Stevenson, for example, who I'm not a fan of, their message is so doom and gloom.
0:33
And it's unless you have got a rich dad, realistically, you're not going to make it.

8 MINS LATER

8:37
And I think that's pretty clear from the evidence.
8:40
Yeah, I think that if you look at the Sunday Times Rich List, the vast majority of multimillionaires on there are self-made.
16:44
Nothing to do with tax?
16:46
Uh, hostility.
16:48
Being...
16:48
The government being hostile towards entrepreneurs helped make me move, yes.
16:51
I told Nigel Farage in an interview, "If I don't get a b- uh, a Christmas card from Keir Starmer saying thank you for your taxes, I'm leaving." And then he didn't, and I left the day after, because I don't like paying millions and millions of pounds of taxes and then not getting thanked.
17:10
I should be thanked.
17:11
I really believe that.

7 MINS LATER

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You was going like a hockey stick, weren't you?
28:28
And the cost of building has gone up massively, right? It
28:30
has gone up massively, yeah.
28:31
So why do you do it, sir? Well, it's got harder.
28:36
to build I mean I have built houses from scratch like bought land built them from scratch I've done that that's quite a tough business right now but what I've done many many many times which I think is personally really good for the economy which is what we talked about earlier about supply and demand And I don't do it for this reason.
28:53
I'm not too here to try and make the, you know, to try and help the economy.
28:57
And that's not why I'm doing it.
28:58
I'm doing it because I'm trying to make money.

20 MINS LATER

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If you
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Keep going.
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Left school at 16, worked on a builder's site, did a bit of everything.
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I was working for my dad.
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My dad's an entertainer, so he used to do children's parties, like balloon animals, magic shows.
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He used to sell things on the markets.
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I worked for him.
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I had my own plastering business.

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