Boris Johnson is trying to build an outdoor swimming pool at his new mansion after resigning in disgrace as an MP.
The ex-PM has applied for planning permission for the lavish works in the grounds of his Cotswolds grand manor house as Brits struggle to pay their bills amid rising costs and interest rate hikes.
Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie paid £3.8million in cash for the nine-bedroom country pile in May this year. The 400-year-old property in Oxfordshire is set in nearly five acres, which already include its own walled garden, moat and a tennis court.
