One millionaire homeowner in London has told a pretty, er, apt story about the former Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, and what he thought of his own party members.
While showing estate agent Lee Koffman around his £29million London house, John Griffin, multi-millionaire philanthropist and former owner of Addison Lee luxury taxi company, shared the anecdote.
Lee said the six-bedroom, eight-bathroom townhouse – decked with a private garden and a separate guest house – was worth ‘every penny’ of its multi-million pound price tag.
Not only is the interior fit for a queen, but the exterior of the Hanover Terrace house, built in 1892, boasts views over Regent Park’s boating and swan lake with a very luxurious balcony to admire it from.
I mean, we wouldn’t say no if someone handed it to us on a silver platter.
But someone actually did, and that someone was Mr Cameron; Conservative Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016, who turned down the offer of a party there.
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Because when on tonight’s episode of Britain’s Most Expensive Houses, Lee commented, ‘I bet you’ve had some fabulous parties here, have you?’ John replied with the surprising tale.
‘Just a few,’ he began.
‘David Cameron, the well-known Prime Minister, was here visiting me and I asked him, would he like me to arrange a party of Conservative do-gooders,’ he told Lee, who let out a laugh at this.
But John continued: ‘And he said no. He said, “It’s too good for them.” So I thought that was quite nice.’
This anecdote comes just as the Partygate report verdict over Boris Johnson’s conduct during the Covid-19 pandemic was published.
It concluded that Mr Johnson – who was Prime Minister from 2019 until his resignation over the controversy last year – deliberately misled Parliament when he said lockdown rules had not been broken in Number 10.
Elsewhere in the episode, one couple were over the moon when their Shoreditch canal-side boathouse sold for a £350,000 profit at £1.1million.
That’s a two-bed, folks. Yep, time delete that RightMove app…
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