The “Proud to Pay” letter, organised by campaign group Patriotic Millionaires UK, states: “We want you to tax us. Lineker, who has a reported net worth of around £30m, said:“Our fantastic country deserves all of us to get behind it. A Conservative spokesperson said:“If you keep raising taxes on top of everything else, you’ll just see more millionaires leaving the country. The group says its own polling found 75 per cent of UK millionaires support higher taxes on themselves. He fought it, all the way to a tax tribunal, and in 2023, he won outright, escaping the bill entirely.