Team BoJo celebrates bid on £1.6m London pad

AS PRIME ministerial residences go, it lacks the stately prestige of 10 Downing Street, or the 16th-century splendour of Chequers. But Boris Johnson, once more on the backbenches, has good reason to be very happy with the four-bedroom house in South London that he and Carrie snapped up in 2019.

I can reveal that it is under offer only a month after going on the market for £1.6million — £400,000 more than they paid for it three years ago.

The windfall profit will be especially gratifying for the Johnsons given that they resisted the temptation to redecorate the three-storey property, still less adorn it with the Lulu Lytle gold wallpaper that Carrie favoured during her controversial £112,000 refurbishment of their Downing Street flat.

This time, she appears to have opted for minimal (and much less costly) changes. Gardeners planted trees in front of the house and got to grips with the 100 ft garden at the rear.

Inside, Carrie’s influence seems to have been limited to the kitchen, whose storage units — previously a rustic brown — now boast white veneers, with plain, brushed steel handles.

It’s debatable whether that will be enough to earn the house a blue plaque, as it seems probable that the Johnsons, who bought it with a buy-to-let mortgage, never spent a single night there. That’s a stark contrast with the property they previously shared: Carrie’s South London flat about a mile away.

While there, neighbours called the police after hearing screaming late at night and, allegedly, Carrie shouting: ‘Get off me!’

That contretemps is believed to have started after red wine was spilt on a sofa.

Neither of the Johnsons — who are said to be mulling over a move to herne hill, a leafier South London enclave — responded to requests for comment.

Let’s hope they manage a toast to a successful sale . . . without spillage.