David Cameron spent £680,000 of taxpayers' cash on Downing Street

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Source: The Guardian

David Cameron has spent more than £680,000 of public money renovating Downing Street in the year that his government inflicted the biggest ever spending cuts across the public sector.

Records of all government spending reveal nine bills for the refurbishment of Downing Street including £30,000 for work he and his wife Samantha carried out on the No 11 flat last summer. The centrepiece of their revamp was the kitchen, revealed this week in official photographs of the President Barack Obama's state visit.

Downing Street has confirmed that the full £30,000 grant for upkeep of the living accommodation, which is available to prime ministers annually, was used for the refit of 11 Downing Street, after the Guardian discovered the payment published in the government's official spending records.

A spokeswomen said the money was spent on rewiring, plumbing and decorating the flat but insisted the Camerons paid for the extras. "No public money was spent on furniture, fittings or accessories," she said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/27/david-cameron-taxpayers-home-improvements

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The Guardian included this Reuters photograph: "The Camerons' refurbished kitchen was seen when Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron posed for this picture last week."

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1. recommend

[SoapBox]

2. Another pig at the trough of public monies...

Maybe they could have lead by example and spent their own money?

Ya right.

Oink-Oink.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Whaaaaaaa?!!! Mr. Austerity? Surely this can't be true. nt

[MichiganVote]

4. Why would you meet the wife of the US President in a kitchen?

That just makes no sense to me.

[ClarkUSA]

5. So the Tory posh boy and his aristo wife refused to settle for historic but plain Number 10 Downing?

Disgusting frauds.