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Setting up a trust to fund the upkeep of Downing Street has been looked into – but it would not be able to pay for refurbishments to the Prime Minister’s flat, according to the Cabinet Secretary.
Boris Johnson is under pressure about renovations to his No 11 living quarters after his former aide, Dominic Cummings, claimed the Prime Minister wanted donors to “secretly pay” for the work in a move which would have been “unethical, foolish, possibly illegal”.
Last week, the Daily Mail published details of an email from Tory peer Lord Brownlow in which he said he was making a £58,000 donation to the party “to cover the payments the party has already made on behalf of the soon-to-be-formed ‘Downing Street Trust’”.
SETTING up a trust to fund the upkeep of Downing Street has been looked into – but it would not be able to pay for refurbishments to the Prime Minister’s flat, according to the Cabinet Secretary. Boris Johnson is under pressure about renovations to his No 11 living quarters after his former aide, Dominic Cummings, claimed the Prime Minister wanted donors to “secretly pay” for the work in a move which would have been “unethical, foolish, possibly illegal”. Last week, the Daily Mail published details of an email from Tory peer Lord Brownlow in which he said he was making a £58,000 donation to the party “to cover the payments the party has already made on behalf of the soon-to-be-formed ‘Downing Street Trust’”.