If these walls – and the wallpaper – could talk
May 10, 2021
3 minutes
JOHN BIRD
Photo:
Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The little row of Georgian houses that connect, at the back, to Horse Guards Road, and connect St James’s Park to Whitehall, is going Downing Street, a modest and no-great-place of government splendour, is once again in the very centre of the political eye. But this time it’s not so much about the functions of the officers of state but the uses to which they have put expensive rolls of wallpaper. And who has commissioned such garish and costly products.
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