Does anyone know where Boris Johnson lives now – or is it a secret?

For the first time I can remember, the location of exactly where our leader puts on pyjamas and fluffs pillows is a mystery, writes Rob Merrick

He eventually came home, which prompted questions about where is home (Reuters)

As we all know, the US president lives at the White House, the French president resides at the Elysee Palace, and the British prime minister beds down at – sorry, where exactly?

For the first time I can remember, the location of exactly where our leader puts on pyjamas and fluffs pillows is a secret, in the latest twist to the sorry tale of Boris Johnson slinking from power.

Our humiliated prime minister has already further damaged his reputation with his two-month farewell which has resembled a freshers’ week in reverse – during the cost of living emergency.

There was the jolly of piloting a Typhoon fighter jet, the huge party at Chequers – which meant he missed Cobra meetings on the heatwave crisis – and he has also larked about with the spooks at MI5.

Despite the fact he will have time on his hands from 5 September, Mr Johnson went on two summer holidays, being captured in a dishevelled state after a night on the lash in Greece, or so it seemed.

I took a risk, at my age, dancing to The Chemical Brothers at a festival last weekend – but that was nowhere near as embarrassing, I trust, as the PM going on holiday with Carrie’s mates, who are a generation younger.

Anyway, he eventually came home – which prompted questions about where is home, given two large removal vans were parked outside the famous No 10 door while he was away.

The luxury furniture said to have been provided by a rich Tory donor – before Mr Johnson was forced to pay him back – has been carted away, so can he really still be living in Downing Street?

Incidentally, we don’t think the infamous £840-a-roll gold wallpaper has been scraped off to be pasted back up in his next home, but it would be unwise to rule it out.

I digress. Put on the spot, the No 10 spokesperson told us Mr Johnson would be “dividing his time” between No 10 and Chequers, his rural retreat, in the few days he has left.

But where he is actually living? “I would only ever get into his working arrangements,” we were told. As I say, it’s a secret.

Hmmm, a stripped-down No 10 flat or a mansion in the gorgeous Buckinghamshire countryside? I know where my money is.

Yours,

Rob Merrick

Deputy political editor