Crystal chandelier in the Chiesa di San Placido in Catania, Sicily

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While one in every hundred children in this country is homeless, and while rents soar due to a lack of affordable housing, Rishi Sunak spent a small fortune on refurbishing Number 10. This is how the interior designer in charge of the project described the work.

“We made long, fully interlined curtains for all five windows overlooking the garden, hand-pleated and held back with heavy coordinating tassels in red, gold and the ivory of the damask."

 “The ornate cornicing was hand-gilded, as it would have been originally, and a rug was commissioned to almost fill the room...

“...“window seats in most of the rooms in a complementary colour. Most of the sofas were velvet, in jewel colours, and the cushions also became a work of art.”

Should he or his family ever become bored with the opulence at Number 10 they can always retire to his  "£6.6m bolthole” in Kensington.

In the mean time, not only is homelessness on the increase but there are:

“Social housing tenants dwelling in properties ‘unfit for human habitation’, MPs warn.”  (NEWSNCR: 20/07/22)

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