The transfer by British Prime Minister Rishi Sonak and his family to the flat above 10 Downing Street’s prime ministerial offices marks a departure from the customs established by previous heads of government who resided in 11 Downing Street, the building’s largest space.
The step that Sonak intends to take and return to the apartment that was inhabited by the days of his service as Minister of the Treasury during the Boris Johnson era, a change in the custom that started with Tony Blair, according to the British newspaper “Evenging Standard”.
Although No. 10 Downing Street serves as the formal residence of the Prime Minister and No. 11 serves as the official residence of the Treasury Secretary, since 1997, the Prime Ministers have opted to live in No.
11, and it has four more bedrooms.
Tony Blair, the first Labor Party prime minister, was the first person to occupy 11 Downing Street in 1997.
Blair and the Treasury Secretary traded jobs because Blair had three children and the Treasury Secretary did not at the time, allowing the family to move into 11 Downing Street’s largest flat.
The British prime minister’s press secretary said that Sonak, his wife Akshata Murithi, and their two daughters Krishna and Anushka “will move to apartment No. 10, where they lived,” when he was a treasury minister. When I asked why the Sonak family was in No. 10 and not No. 11, she responded, “They were happy Very there..”
Sonak intends to relocate to live in the British Prime Minister’s first office, 10 Downing Street.
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