By Glen Owen and Brendan Carlin for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 00:21 BST, 21 April 2019 | Updated: 00:21 BST, 21 April 2019
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Jeremy Corbyn is considering ‘boycotting’ Downing Street if he becomes Prime Minister under plans which have caused turmoil in Whitehall and dismay among his advisers.
Civil servants secretly preparing for a possible Labour Government have been told that Mr Corbyn would prefer to remain living in his four-bedroom North London home and use No 10 purely as an office.
One Whitehall source also claimed that civil servants had discussed the prospect of the Labour leader being allowed to convert part of the famous No 10 Rose Garden into a vegetable plot, similar to the allotment which he famously tends. Vegetables were last planted in the Downing Street garden when Gordon Brown was Prime Minister.
Civil servants secretly preparing for a possible Labour Government have been told that Mr Corbyn would prefer to remain living in his four-bedroom North London home and use No 10 purely as an office
Last night, a source close to Mr Corbyn told The Mail on Sunday that he had been ‘openly discussing’ the plan to remain living in his relatively modest terrace house in his Islington constituency – despite his own aides protesting that it would be a security nightmare for the police.
The source said: ‘He just doesn’t want to live above the shop, even though he’s being told he will probably have to.’
With the opinion polls now suggesting that Mr Corbyn is within touching distance of No 10, Labour insiders say that he has not budged from his long-held view that he would prefer to keep living in his own house.
Tree Manor, Pave Lane, near Newport, Shropshire, the house where Jeremy Corbyn lived from aged six until he left home
One said: ‘It’s part of Jeremy’s attraction to voters – he just
