Carrie Johnson sees No10 as a 'prison' and plans to quit politics
Carrie Johnson sees No10 as a ‘prison’ and plans to quit politics when Boris leaves power as the couple plan for life after years in Downing Street ‘pressure cooker’
- PM’s wife wants them to get away from the ‘pressure cooker’ of life in Downing St
- The couple live in a lavish four-bedroom flat about No11 paid for by taxpayer
- She is reported to be unhappy about the constant scrutiny they face outside it
Carrie Johnson feels that No10 is ‘like a prison’ and will seek to make a clean break with politics when Boris leaves power.
Reports say that the Prime Minister’s wife, a former Conservative Party spinner, wants them to get away from the ‘pressure cooker’ of life in Downing Street.
The couple live in a lavish four-bedroom flat about No11, but she is reported to be unhappy about the constant scrutiny they face outside it.
According to the Telegraph the keen environmentalist wants to focus on her charity work when the new Tory leader takes over in September.
The couple have a £1.2million home in Camberwell, south London, but do not plan to live there for security reasons. Mr Johnson also has a home in Oxfordshire, which, like the London house, is rented out commercially.
A source told the paper: ‘Downing Street is like a prison. It’s nice enough in the flat but it doesn’t have its own outside space that is genuinely yours.
‘The garden is shared with the staff and you can’t move outside of the gates without people following you or taking pictures. That is a nightmare.’
Reports say that the Prime Minister’s wife, a former Conservative Party spinner, wants them to get away from the ‘pressure cooker’ of life in Downing Street.
The couple live in a lavish four-bedroom flat about No11, but she is reported to be unhappy about the constant scrutiny they face outside it.
It came as Rachel Johnson defended her brother Boris in an emotional retelling of his time as Prime Minister while praising his ‘drive, intelligence and energy’ as he set to achieve his ‘childhood ambition’ of being ‘world king’.
The LBC presenter opened up about the PM who finally conceded he had run out of options after ministers and MPs forced Mr Johnson into announcing his resignation last Thursday.
But her passionate defence of his record in Number 10 did not meet with universal admiration, as one twitter user wrote that the ‘delusional’ presenter ‘should stick to doing her sobbing at home’.
She commended her brother for ‘steering the country through the Covid pandemic’ and ‘setting the west’s course’ after Russia invaded Ukraine while ‘conveying his own belief of what it is to be British’.
Mrs Johnson, 56, described the ‘rise and fall’ of her brother who ‘almost achieved’ the ambition he has kept since he was two: to be ‘world king’.
She said: ‘I haven’t deliberately been listening to much of the vindictiveness, the dancing on the grave, the spitting on the grave and I’m not listening to those who have made a good listening out of Boris bashing. I’m not here to praise him and I’m not here to bury him – just to say a few simple things from the heart as his sister.
‘Let me tell you a story as Rishi’s slick promotional video started, lets say the rise and fall of Boris in a way that a small child might understand.
‘Once upon a time there was a little boy who dreamt of becoming world king, he first said that when he was two, and actually almost achieved his ambition.
‘He wasn’t rich in wealth, his privilege was in his education, his intelligence, his drive, his energy, and he set about achieving his childhood ambitions, including writing a number one bestseller, which he did with his book: The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History.
She referenced Partygate and how Mr Johnson celebrated his 56th birthday in June 2020 with a small gathering and a birthday cake in the cabinet room.
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