Flat spin
Which prime minister spent the most on their Downing Street flat, according to figures reported over the years?
Margaret Thatcher £0 (Kept 1960s kitchen. Is reputed to have paid for her own ironing board)
Tony Blair £127,000 spent on larger flat above No. 11 (including wallpaper reputed to have cost £70 a roll)
Gordon Brown £84,000
David Cameron £92,900 (with £64,000 spent on kitchen and bathroom)
Theresa May £25,500
Boris Johnson Between £88,000 and £200,000 (according to various reports)
But all were eclipsed by the £650,000 of public money spent by former Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine on his flat in the Lords, including £59,000 of wallpaper.
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