Revealed: what Boris and Carrie hang on their walls

Much has been written about the reported £88,000 Downing Street flat makeover masterminded by A-list interior designer Lulu Lytle. We’re told that the new look boasts ‘Persian rugs, cream walls with gold hangings and gold chandeliers’. There’s talk of ‘gold’ wallpaper (at £840 a roll) so heavy it is now peeling off the walls. But what works currently hang off it?

These days, Downing Street aides are rather hush hush about the interiors of the flat. But there are some clues. Mr S has obtained files from the government Art Collection which lay bare for the first time the tastes and preferences of the Prime Minister and his wife Carrie Johnson when it comes to the paintings that hang in the flat. According to the documents, Johnson has bagged 44 of the 182 works listed as being ‘current ministerial selections’.