Wes Streeting has moved into a multimillion pound government mansion in the centre of London, Guido can reveal. This comes after David Lammy refused to leave…
David Lammy occupied the Foreign Secretary’s traditional residence at 1 Carlton Gardens, a taxpayer-funded stuccoed mansion overlooking St James’s Park and metres from Buckingham Palace, until 12 September this year. He refused to leave after being demoted to DPM in the Starmer reshuffle and also spent the entire summer there after Burnham came in and sacked him again…
After Lammy left the mansion stayed empty for about three weeks before Wes Streeting moved in on 6 October. There were reports that Streeting was occupying a flat in Rayner’s favourite Admiralty House – looks like he wanted something grander…
The grace-and-favour mansion was valued at £20 million in 2001 when Labour was considering selling it – according to subsequent rises in London property prices it would now be valued at around £60-70 million. Some compensation for being the isolated Defence Sec…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”