By Eleanor Sharples For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:50 GMT, 27 March 2019 | Updated: 00:50 GMT, 27 March 2019
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With its glorious Manhattan views and a £12million price tag, you might expect this lavish apartment to belong to a Hollywood A-lister.
In fact, the seven-bedroom penthouse will be home to the civil servant set to negotiate our trade deal with the US after Brexit.
The Government has bought the apartment for Antony Phillipson, the trade commissioner for North America and consul general, to be used when Britain leaves the EU.
This seven-bedroom penthouse, which comes with five en-suites and its own library, will be home to the civil servant set to negotiate our trade deal with the US after Brexit
It boasts glorious Manhattan views and comes with £12million price tag - paid for by 'Her Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs’, New York City records show
Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt arranged the purchase of the 5,893 sq ft flat which occupies the whole of the 38th floor of 50 United Nations Plaza, a 42-storey block near the UN headquarters
The 550ft (167m) skyscraper was developed by the Zeckendorf family and Eyal Ofer, a Monaco-based Israeli property billionaire. The building has high security, including a 24-hour gated entrance
The Government bought the apartment for Antony Phillipson (pictured), the trade commissioner for North America and consul general, to be used when Britain leaves the EU
Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt arranged the purchase of the
