Daily Mail reported, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to rent out his house in Oxfordshire.
Accordingly, the British politician along with his fiancee Carrie Symonds will no longer live in this house for security reasons. It is known that tenants will pay more than 4.2 thousand pounds per month.
According to the Daily Mail, Mr. Johnson, ex-wife Marina Wheeler bought the house in 2003 for £ 690,000. Currently the house is worth about 1.2 million pounds. The house has a minimalist décor with white walls and wooden floors.
The new tenants will own a house about 288 square meters with 4 bedrooms. On campus there is an outdoor swimming pool and a small house with kitchen and fireplace.
British Prime Minister Johnson rents the house. (Photo: RIA)
British authorities said Prime Minister Johnson and his family could not stay in the property because of confidentiality principles under British Government regulations, forcing him to live in the Chequers mansion.
Traditionally, the country mansion that the incumbent prime minister stayed, rested on weekends and hosted international guests was the Chequers Palace, located on the 600-hectare grassland and forest in Buckinghamshire.
Mr. Johnson was not the first British Prime Minister to rent out his home when he moved to 10 Downing Street.
In 2010, former Prime Minister David Cameron also rented a house in Notting Hill worth 2.7 million pounds for about 6,000 pounds a month. And former Prime Minister Theresa May also rents out a London property, reports show she earns £ 10,000 a month.
In November 2019, Mr. Johnson sold the house in the north of London for £ 3.75 million (more than $ 4.6 million). The house used to be the home of Mr. Johnson with his second wife, Marina Wheeler, before the couple announced their divorce in September 2018. This five-story house was bought by Prime Minister Johnson in 2005 for nearly $ 2.4 million. The house is designed according to traditional architecture, has an area of more than 306 m2 with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.
In March, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to set up a charity to pay for the costly renovation of his home. The former work was overseen by the politician’s fiancé, Carrie Symonds – she has been unable to control her expenses, putting her future husband in a difficult situation.
Renovating an apartment on Downing Street in London costs “tens, tens of thousands of pounds”. In another conversation Mr. Johnson complained that the cost of repairs amounted to “more than a hundred thousand”.
To overcome this situation, Mr. Johnson decided to set up a charity that will receive funding to survive as a cultural heritage fund. Establishment application is being prepared. The head of the fund will be Baron David Brownlow, a millionaire and former Vice President of the Conservative Party of England.
Before that, in July 2019, Boris Johnson became the first British Prime Minister in history to live with an unmarried woman at the Prime Minister’s Palace at 10 Downing Street.
In April 2020, Prime Minister Johnson’s fiancé, Carrie Symonds, gave birth to a baby boy at a NHS National Health System hospital in London.
Some pictures of the British Prime Minister’s house for rent:
(Photo: The Image Barn)
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