The steamy Netflix period drama Bridgerton might not immediately put you in mind of the Tory inner circle. (Liz Truss for one has professed to be fan of grittier TV dramas such as Scandi crime thriller The Bridge.) Yet the two have some common ground – and it can be found in Greenwich, south-east London.
Forget the Notting Hill set of the Cameron era and the Islington mafia of the Blair years. It seems that a verdant corner of the (Labour) royal borough has turned blue, with Truss, potential chancellor-in-waiting Kwasi Kwarteng and former Brexit minister Lord Frost (now tipped to head up the Cabinet Office) all living in the period streets of West Greenwich – where Bridgerton has been filming on their Regency doorsteps. Education secretary James Cleverly also lives just down the road from the new Greenwich gang (or what some have called the ‘Greenwich mafia‘), in Blackheath.
Netflix crews (and prime ministerial contests) aside, life in Greenwich has always been far from dull, as many of us south-east Londoners can attest.
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