The private apartment is small, the rest of the house labyrinthine: no prime minister has lived in No.10 Downing Street for 25 years. This will now change with Rishi Sunak – he and his family already know the premises very well.
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Alexander Menden
One of the surprises that Rishi Sunak had in store when he took office as Prime Minister was the announcement that not only in No. 10 Downing Street, but also wanting to live there. No British prime minister has done that for a quarter of a century. Although this London address, second to Buckingham Palace, is probably the official residence of the British head of government, since Tony Blair became prime minister in 1997 and needed space for his three children, all incumbents have lived in the apartment next door. No. 11 was previously reserved for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but with four bedrooms, the private quarters there are more spacious than those in the famous house next door. So Blair traded with his then childless Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.