The luxurious lap of the welfare state

Pity poor St. Tony Blair. Once they drag him screaming and kicking from the doorway at Number 10 Downing Street he will have nowhere to live despite the fact the he and his wife seem to own about five different homes, including a £3.6 million house on Connaught Square. Fortunately the nation is so grateful to this giant of a statesman that we are going to let him and his family crash at Chequers in Buckinghamshire for a bit until he sorts out a pad of his own. Big of us isn't it?

I hope that he remembers that this is a taxable perk and declares it to the Inland Revenue. His replacement is a bit of a stickler over things like these.