RICHARD EDEN: Rishi Sunak eyes up Sir Winston Churchill's £19.5million pad..
. where war leader moved after he lost 1945 general election By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 23:19, 20 September 2024 | Updated: 23:27, 20 September 2024 e-mail View comments He didn't quite have the same impact as Sir Winston Churchill while living at 10 Downing Street , but that has apparently not deterred Rishi Sunak from moving into another London property formerly occupied by his illustrious Conservative predecessor. I hear that Sunak is considering buying a 19th-century town house where Churchill lived after he lost the 1945 general election to Labour.
The seven-bedroom home is on the market for £19.5million. 'Rishi and his wife viewed the house with an estate agent,' a neighbour tells me.
'It is one of several properties in West London that they have been to view.' It would represent a big step up the property ladder for Sunak and his wife, Akshata, the daughter of an Indian billionaire, as they currently own a much smaller home in a mews street in Kensington. They bought the house in 2010, a year after their wedding, for a reported £4.
5million. It's now worth an estimated £6.6 million.
Churchill originally owned the house next door to the one viewed by the Sunaks, which he used as his office before buying this property for £7,000 and combining the two properties into one sprawling home. Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is contemplating buying a 19th century townhouse that o.