Boris Johnson’s flat makeover spent £28,000 of taxpayers’ cash mainly on ‘floorboards’

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Official report reveals extraordinary money-chain – before prime minister finally paid excess costs himself

“The prime minister never came absolutely clean about who funded the flat. Why couldn’t he just be straight with the public?”has launched a formal investigation into the financing of the refurbishment of the Downing Street flat, saying “an offence or offences may have occurred”.his ethics adviser Lord Geidt said he had acted “unwisely”However, that widely-criticised report did not set out the saga of how the makeover was financed, now revealed in the Cabinet Office’s annual report.

 

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The final question of course is where did BorisJohnson, who was claiming to be struggling financially in a PMs pay, suddenly find the money?

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