Wallpapergate: Leaked £200,000 invoice reveals Boris Johnson’s No 11 flat renovation included £7,000 rug and £3,675 trolley
Wallpapergate: Leaked £200,000 invoice reveals Boris Johnson’s No 11 flat renovation included £7,000 rug and £3,675 trolley
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>The full extent of the notorious Wallpapergate scandal seen by some as heralding the start of Boris Johnson’s downfall has been laid bare.
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>The Independent has obtained a leaked copy of the invoice for the renovation of the Prime Minister’s Downing Street flat which shows it cost more than £200,000.
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>Items ordered by Mr Johnson and wife Carrie from upmarket interior designer Lulu Lytle include a £3,675 drinks trolley said to be like the one owned in Paris by ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev and £2,260 worth of the ‘gold’ wallpaper that Mr Johnson privately complained his wife had purchased.
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>Two sofas cost more than £15,000; £3,000 was spent on a ‘paint effect’ for the flat hallway; and the cheapest item is a £500 kitchen table cloth. …
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All be in a skip in a few weeks.
Can’t wait to read news about rental van outside No. 10 when they try to shift all that stuff as their own,
The trolley I stole from Aldi only cost me a quid.
Is that why Cummings uses the trolley emoji in his tweets?
It someone decorated my place like that, I’d be invoicing them for the restoration work.
Reminds of when I visited my brother after he moved in with his girlfriend and was surprised when he didn’t have a TV and other basics because she had blown the entire furnishing budget on an antique drinks trolley and nearly a grands worth of ‘vintage’ knobs and handles for the kitchen.
> and the cheapest item is a £500 kitchen table cloth.
I mean, it’s all bad but…500quid on a fucking table cloth? What kind of fucking table cloth costs 500quid
What makes it worse is that all of that redecoration made the place look fucking *awful*
lol I spent my lunch calculating if I could afford a £10 rug from Ikea, I decided against it and got a £7 Kebab instead.
I just can’t believe the lack of style – 4k on a drinks trolley who even buys a drinks trolley now.
Do you remember when they were poking fun at Theresa May for turning no 10 into a John Lewis nightmare? Arseholes.
A £6000 lamp, with a £2500 shade.
I’m guessing this invoice was to help paper over the cracks in the current Tory administration?
No wonder the c*** described being PM as ‘the best job in the world’. Wanker.
Only way you should be spending that much on a drinks trolley is if it’s one of them globe ones big enough to fit a body in.
Why would you spend so much on a drinks trolley?
Vile people.
So the Courtesan got herself a lovely rug and trolley. Wonder what his next wife – let’s face it, she’ll leave him or he’ll ditch her for the next young filly – will get. Maybe a nice set of matching towels from Ikea?
It’s the fact that he didn’t even consider paying for it himself despite his 200k a year salary *and* the fact he’s already a multimillionaire that gets me.
Stupid idiots. Could’ve gone down to ASDA. They provide FREE trolleys!
More spent on a trolley than a single unemployed person has to live on for a year what absolutely shitty people.
I really hope that when the next PM is asked what their first order of business is, they say “redecorating”.
They really are the modern day Ceausescus.
When they move out，I bet those expensive items will get packed.
Just Googled it and the design of that wallpaper is disgusting. You couldn’t pay me to put it on my wall.
If Keir gets in, he should sell it and use the proceeds to a cost of living charity or something.
That would be the ultimate fuck you to the Tories.
Awful people.
I hate how people stick gate on everything. Gate means gate, gate does not mean scandal.
I always think these kind of “leaks” are actually a distraction tactic that takes focus away from the real issues, the price of something is only worth it to the person buying it! Rugs, Trolleys or whatever its personal choice, those things are personally not for me but i don’t live in their world!
It amazes me how poor people get convinced to keep rich people in power!!!
Carie Antoinette.
Its hilarious if the Chequers Wedding bash story is true. After everything that’s happened they want one last party???
Also hearing Boris is technically homeless when hes booted out of No 10. Another reason why hes stalling so hard.
Hes a grifter and and a conman.
The problem is, the people living in those buildings have absolutely no understanding of the value of money. To them, a £7000 rug is like a £50 rug to us. They simply do not understand and think it’s a completely normal price to pay for a fucking rug.
It’s a joke, because we’re run by people who’re out of touch with the reality of the common person. And they’re the ones in charge of making fiscal decisions that affect us all. They don’t understand how paying a couple quid more in tax is the difference in meals for some, because to them even a couple hundred more in tax wouldn’t affect them.
We’re run by a bunch of posh cunts who need to fuck off.
This place should be looted. Absolutely fucking disgusting behaviour during a “cost of living” crisis manfuactured by the very crowd spending thousand on golden luxuries.
This is like something out of Game of Thrones.
Did he think he had Sunak’s billions?
Was he jealous of his chancellor – who paid for his own much cheaper refurbishment.
Can we pass a law to ban Lulu Lyttle from all government buildings.
Ridiculous prices, even for London.
I’m not suggesting IKEA, but wtf.
Perhaps they should make Zac Goldsmith the next PM, at least they get their money’s worth out of the wallpaper.