Decorating the PM’s flat is always a costly affair, but Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds are moving up to a new luxury price point
The Wallfashion Bureau, a group representing the British wallpaper industry, declared itself insulted. Derry Irvine, the first of Tony Blair’s lord chancellors, had defended the expenditure of £59,000 on handmade wallpaper on the grounds that “you are talking about quality materials which are capable of lasting for 60 or 70 years. You are not talking about something down at the DIY store that might collapse after a year or so.”
“As an industry,” riposted the bureau’s Terry Langstroth, “we produce top quality products which can cost a fraction of the price he is paying.”
