Sir Jim Ratcliffe, 71 later this week, owns the petrochemicals giant INEOS, which says it comprises 36 businesses at 194 sites in 29 countries with more than 26,000 employees.His net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, is $13.6billion but the Sunday Times Rich List an annual list compiled by the British newspaper estimated him to be worth £29.6bn, making him the second-richest man in the UK.He describes himself as a boyhood United fan, although he did make an attempt to purchase Chelsea when the club was for sale in 2022.Ratcliffe is a UK tax exile who backed Brexit, albeit a soft one, and thinks the UK government’s stance on fracking is “pathetic”.He grew up in Failsworth, a few miles from Manchester city centre, and then his family moved across the Pennines to Yorkshire, where he was enrolled at Beverley Grammar School, just north of Hull.He read chemical engineering at Birmingham University, then worked for Esso after graduation, before moving into priva