Remainer Phil takes 2 WEEKS to quit flat
PHILIP HAMMOND took more than two weeks to move out of his Downing Street flat, delaying the arrival of new Chancellor Sajid Javid’s family, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
Downing Street sources said the former Chancellor was still moving possessions from the flat, reserved for the Treasury’s top man, on Friday morning. A source said: ‘We know he is a rampant Remainer, but this is ridiculous.’
The Chancellor’s flat is actually above No 10, with the more spacious No 11 apartment reserved for Prime Ministers ever since Tony Blair and his family moved in.
But sources say there was no ill-feeling from father-of-four Mr Javid about Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie bagging the bigger accommodation.
‘Despite reports of sour grapes, they actually came to an amicable solution over their living arrangements,’ one source said.
Meanwhile, Mr Hammond was spotted looking glum on the London Underground on Friday by the Twitter user EyeSpy.MP. The ex-Chancellor kept two hands on his bags as he waited for his train to depart Leicester Square station in Central London.
Mr Hammond pointedly gave up the trappings of high office – including an armoured limousine – by resigning on the very day Theresa May left office.