Boris Johnson said his Downing Street apartment resembled a 'crack den'.Source: LBC
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00:00I have to ask you about the way that the apartment was done up with £2,260 worth of wallpaper
00:06and a drinks trolley that cost £3,675 that was modelled on one that was owned by Rudolf
00:12Nureyev. Really? I wasn't aware of that. Yes, it was Rudolf Nureyev style drinks trolley.
00:20What were you thinking? All of that, so what happened was we set up a, because frankly once
00:26I'd pulled the carpets out of the flat in number 11 which is where we lived because of Dylan was
00:34then in the stages of being, the whole thing looked like a bit like a crack den to be totally
00:39honest and it needed to be refurbished then the whole of Downing Street. £200,000 Mr Johnson.
00:45I don't recognise that. That's the total bill. No it wasn't, it wasn't as much as that,
00:49it wasn't as much. But I can tell you that I paid the whole thing. Well initially Lord
00:54Brownlow paid didn't he? I paid the whole thing myself as I've explained many times in the commons.