Compared with other countries, the speed at which Downing Street changes hands is unusual – and can be brutal
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It’s one of life’s most stressful challenges, but not many do it straight after six weeks of relentless election campaigning and on the threshold of the biggest job in the UK. On top of everything else, Keir Starmer is moving house.
In the next day or two, the Starmers – Keir, Victoria and their two teenage children – will relocate from their north London house to a flat over the shop of 10 or 11 Downing Street. Meanwhile, the Sunaks must also pack up their possessions and move out to one of their properties – maybe the five-bedroom mews house in Kensington, or perhaps the Grade II-listed Georgian manor house in North Yorkshire.
