. . . as Blair’s boy buys a £2.75million Boho pad

MILD-MANNERED playwright Alan Bennett was roused to march against Tony Blair over the invasion of Iraq, but must now contend with a Blair in his own backyard.

I hear that the former prime minister’s son, Nicky, 32, has spent £2.75million on a Victorian villa in the same North London road as Bennett, 84.

‘Neighbours’ get-togethers will be fascinating,’ a local tells me.

Bennett’s fellow writer Sir Jonathan Miller, 84, who starred in the same subversive Sixties comedy series Beyond The Fringe, also lives in what has been described as Britain’s most bohemian street. In 1961, Miller paid just £7,000 for his house in the road, which was immortalised by Bennett on film with his picture Lady In The Van.

Football agent Nicky bought the house with his divorce lawyer wife, Alexandra, using a mortgage from Barclays.

He previously lived in a fourstorey Georgian property elsewhere in the capital bought by his parents for £1.35 million in 2012 — and paid for in cash.

The purchase takes the value of the Blair’ property empire to more than £40 million.