If there’s an upside to spending tens of thousands of pounds – as Boris Johnson did – in doing up his Downing Street flat, it’s surely that such a costly renovation will stand the test of time. Unfortunately the £88,000 makeover at No.11, masterminded by A-list interior designer Lulu Lytle, appears to have already seen better days.
No pictures have ever emerged of the new look, which reportedly includes Persian rugs, cream walls, chandeliers and even ‘gold’ wallpaper (at £840 a roll). But Jeremy Hunt, who picked up survivor of the year at last night’s Spectator Parliamentarian awards, revealed that the wallpaper is already peeling – and that Boris’s short-lived successor as PM, Liz Truss, even painted over the eye-wateringly expensive decoration:
‘We are moving in, as it happens this weekend. I had one or two other things on until then. We did go in though, just to have a look around the flat first and, of course, where did we want to go first? We wanted to go and see the wallpaper.
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