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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harriet Sherwood

Running the country while choosing the curtains: how new PMs move in to No 10

A large Stephen Morris removals van parked directly outside the front door to 10 Downing Street, with someone carrying something coming out of the door
A team from Stephen Morris Shipping move the Blairs out of Downing Street in 2007. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

It’s one of life’s most stressful challenges, but not many do it straight after six weeks of relentless election campaigning and on the threshold of the biggest job in the UK. On top of everything else, Keir Starmer is moving house.

In the next day or two, the Starmers – Keir, Victoria and their two teenage children – will relocate from their north London house to a flat over the shop of 10 or 11 Downing Street. Meanwhile, the Sunaks must also pack up their possessions and move out to one of their properties – maybe the five-bedroom mews house in Kensington, or perhaps the Grade II-listed Georgian manor house in North Yorkshire.

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