Living in Downing Street: Rishi Sunak and family move back in

The caller premier curate and his household volition beryllium returning to unrecorded successful the level supra No 10, Downing Street has said.

Rishi Sunak, on with his woman and 2 daughters, stayed successful the level erstwhile helium was chancellor to Boris Johnson.

Many PMs of caller years- particularly those with children - person lived successful the larger level supra No 11, officially designated for the chancellor.

Asked wherefore Mr Sunak has opted for No 10 instead, a Downing Street spokeswoman said: "They were precise blessed there."

The residential areas wrong Downing Street, are mostly kept distant from the nationalist eye. But a fewer publicity shots from the past decades person offered glimpses into the décor down the celebrated No 10 door.

"We person already decorated it and it's lovely."

Meanwhile, respective predecessors including Mr Johnson elected to unrecorded successful No 11 due to the fact that the four-bedroom level determination is overmuch larger than the 1 supra No 10.

Tony Blair and his woman Cherie and their household were the archetypal to marque the switch, swapping location with the past unmarried Gordon Brown. The Blairs turned the abstraction into a household home.

A enactment astir the interiors of Downing Street emerged much precocious erstwhile Mr Johnson faced disapproval implicit an costly revamp of the No 11 level - which led to the Conservative Party being fined £17,800.

The premier curate receives an yearly nationalist assistance of £30,000 to walk connected surviving quarters.

However the enactment for Mr Johnson and his woman Carrie, carried retired by interior decorator Lulu Lytle, outgo much than £200,000.

The enactment was initially paid for by the Cabinet Office, but £52,000 was fixed to the Conservative Party by Tory donor Lord Brownlow to screen the bills.

Mr Johnson said helium had since covered the costs from his ain pocket.

The Electoral Commission fined the Tory enactment and recovered it had failed to accurately state each of Lord Brownlow's donations towards the renovation.

Asked whether Mr Sunak and his household volition redecorate, the PM's property caput said: "Not that I'm alert of."

In April, earlier Mr Sunak resigned arsenic chancellor, his household moved retired of Downing Street to their westbound London location to beryllium person to their children's school.

In his last fewer months arsenic chancellor, Mr Sunak divided his clip betwixt the household location and his authoritative residence.

In the interrogation with the Times, Mr Sunak insisted the determination from Downing Street successful April was due to the fact that his eldest girl was successful her past word of superior schoolhouse and was meant to beryllium capable to locomotion to schoolhouse by herself each day.

No 10 Downing Street has been the residence of British premier minister's since 1735, says the government's website. It has 3 functions - the authoritative residence of the PM, their bureau and wherever the premier curate entertains guests from satellite leaders to royalty.

It is overmuch larger than it appears from the front, with a warren of rooms and staircases spreading from the hallway with the chequered level instantly down the beforehand door.

And different important nonmigratory of No 10 Downing Street is the cat, Larry, who has lived determination since 2011 and has often caught the public's attention.