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  • Making a Manor

    Making a Manor

    Refurbished Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million

     

    Reduced in price by £200,000 since when it was previously on the market in June 2015, a Surrey manor house is again for sale – but this time for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million).

     

    First mentioned in association with Robert de Upbroke in 1282, Osbrooks at Capel, near Dorking was built as a hall and smoke bay house in the 15th and 16th centuries. Subsequently redeveloped in the 17th century and then extended by Detmar Blow (1867 – 1939) – an architect, contemporary of Edwin Lutyens and disciple of John Ruskin – in the arts and crafts style in the early 20th century. The building was given Grade II listed status in November 1966 and more recently had a swimming pool, gym and garaging added.

     

    Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.
    Osbrooks in 1890
    Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.
    Osbrooks today (with 20th century extension to left)

     

    Standing in 14 acres of gardens and grounds designed by amongst others the especially prolific Gertrude Jekyll (1843 – 1932), Osbrooks now provides 4,987 square foot and features 4 reception rooms, a bar, 8 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It includes such details as oak joinery, leaded windows and tall, diagonal chimney stacks and could very easily be used as a location in a Midsomer Murders or Miss Marple murder mystery television drama.

     

    Of the property, in April, John Fisher of selling agents Sotheby’s International Realty told The Times: “It could be a house for entertaining as well as comfortable living. It has all the space you could require, as well as proximity to good schools”.

     

    An adjoining 4-acre plot with stabling and planning permission for a 1,959 square foot, single storey dwelling is also available through Sotheby’s. It is offered for £450,000 ($586,000, €523,000 or درهم2.2 million).

     

    Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.Making a Manor – £2.55m Osbrooks, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5JN – Refurbished Grade II listed Surrey manor house with connections to Detmar Blow and Gertrude Jekyll for sale for £2.55 million ($3.32 million, €2.96 million or درهم12.20 million) through Sotheby’s International Realty.

  • Faded Grandeur

    Faded Grandeur

    Knightsbridge flat for sale for £3.75 million in spite of needing complete renovation and having a lease with just 9 years remaining

     

    A lateral flat – with an interior that could be described as ‘Miss Havisham-esque’ in terms of its faded grandeur – at 16/17 Ennismore Gardens, SW7 has gone on sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million).

     

    Comprising of a first floor balcony flat of 3,111 square foot and a fifth floor staff or guest flat of 488 square foot, the 3,559 square foot property offered has a total of 3 reception rooms, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. It is within a Grade II listed building and described by selling agents Hobart Slater as being “potentially one of the finest apartments in Ennismore Gardens”.

     

    The catch? There are just nine years left on the lease and though this could be extended, purchased at asking price it effectively equates to a cost of £417,000 per year ($544,000, €485,000 or درهم2 million per year). A further expense comes in the form of a service charge of £17,672 per year ($23,033, €20,554 or درهم84,641 per year) also.

     

    Faded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart SlaterFaded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart SlaterFaded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart SlaterFaded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart SlaterFaded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart SlaterFaded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart SlaterFaded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart SlaterFaded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart SlaterFaded Grandeur – Flat 2, 16 – 17 Ennismore Gardens, London, SW7 1AA, United Kingdom – First Floor Flat and Fifth Floor Staff/Guest Apartment – For sale for £3.75 million ($4.89 million, €4.36 million or درهم17.96 million) through Hobart Slater

  • The Cat That Didn’t Get The Cream

    The Cat That Didn’t Get The Cream

    Though Julian Assange’s cat may have looked on smugly yesterday, all its bail jumping owner achieved was to make himself appear arrogant and ridiculous

     

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has evaded British justice for 2,356 days and though, yesterday, he may have stood on a balcony and pontificated about how he won’t “forgive or forget”, all he achieved was once again to show himself as a tedious pillock and complete nuisance.

     

    In the time this narcissistic Australian has been holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in Knightsbridge, with his help, Donald Trump has become 45th President of the United States of America and all avenues of Swedish prosecutors investigating him over an alleged rape exhausted. It is a shameful state of affairs and it is utterly wrong that this bail jumper continues to think he’s above British law.

     

    In response to a question as to whether she would support Britain extraditing Assange to the US, another self-serving sort, Theresa May, conveniently dodged a bullet yesterday. This equally smug woman blandly answered:

     

    “Any decision that is taken about UK action in relation to [Assange] were he to leave the Ecuadorian embassy would be an operational matter for the police”.

     

    #BirdsOfAFeather

     

    Picture: Julian Assange’s cat in the window of the Embassy of Ecuador in London on Friday 19th May 2017 (with sweets thrown on the windowsill by supporters supposedly keen to feed it and its bail jumping owner), © Matthew Steeples.

     

     

  • Basement It Like Beckham

    Basement It Like Beckham

    Former Algerian Embassy in Holland Park for sale for £30 million; the detached stucco house needs complete renovation and counts David and Victoria Beckham as neighbours

     

    The former Embassy of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria in Holland Park, W11 has just been placed for sale for the sum of £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million).

     

    Offered by estate agent Anthony Sharp, the 9,490 square foot, Grade II listed detached stucco house includes accommodation over five floors and was built in 1862. One of remaining Italianate villas designed by brothers Francis and William Radford, 54 Holland Park is described as being “in need of full modernisation” and as having “scope to create a magnificent family home”.

     

    The buyer will count David and Victoria Beckham as near neighbours. They paid £31.5 million ($41.1 million, €36.6 million or درهم150.9 million) for 23 Holland Park in 2013 and finally took up residence there in July 2016 after completing an £8 million ($10.4 million, €9.3 million or درهم38.3 million) renovation that included, amongst other things, a vast subterranean redevelopment.

     

    Basement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony Sharp Basement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony Sharp

  • Poore Borwick

    Poore Borwick

    New contributor Mark Newton shares his views on the “dubious record” of Lady Borwick, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Kensington

    Kensington, Kensington, its name beats the drum of the Conservative heartland of London. Tory grandees have worked long and hard to be fortified in this Bastion with greats like Alan Clark, Michael Portillo and Malcom Rifkind amongst its previous tenants. To be given Kensington is to be awarded one of the safest, and most convenient seats in the land – a prize to be won by only the hardest working, and most industrious of MPs and this, to my mind, makes the continued selection of Lady Borwick (née Victoria Poore) as the Tory candidate even harder to understand.

     

    Known locally by the epithet ‘Lazy Borwick’, this latest MP is cast quite differently from the usual Kensington mould. Lady (‘Call me Victoria’) Borwick’s stance on Brexit, lousy debate participation and letter response history, questionable use of public funds and ongoing links to shady businesses is creating quite the heated storm in the chattering leafy private gardens of Kensington. Over the next three articles, I’ll be taking a look at Lady Borwick to try to get to the bottom of how and why one of the safest Tory seats of the land came to be held by the one of the least worthy occupants.

     

    Lady Borwick succeeded in getting her hands on Kensington after Malcolm Rifkind stepped down at the 2015 General Election. The circumstances of that coup are somewhat strange, not least because of the history of Kensington in selecting high profile and hard working MPs. What seems to have happened is simple nepotism. Lady Borwick, having twice failed to make the selection list for London mayor during Steven Norris’ candidacy, finally slid into the London Assembly in 2008 as one of three London-wide Conservative members. From there it was an easy promotion from Boris Johnson to the Deputy Mayorhood, and it seems no-one less than the great ‘BoJo’ himself shoe-horned her into the Kensington seat ahead of better qualified and more industrious candidates.

     

    So why then is the epithet ‘Lazy Borwick’ doing the rounds in the Royal Borough? Surprisingly, it has very little to do with her controversial Brexit stance in a strongly Remain constituency. What’s got Conservatives up in arms is her uselessness as a constituency MP. According to the MP tracking website TheyWorkForYou, Lady Borwick’s response rate to written enquiries is just 18% – an abysmal score that places her 618th on a list of 641 responding MPs. If there’s one thing the well-to-do residents of Kensington don’t like it’s an MP who is too busy or lazy to respond to their well-meant enquiries, particularly a Member of Parliament who manages to be significantly less efficient than her much busier, high profile forbearers.

     

    So, what, might you ask, is taking up so much of Lazy Borwick’s time that she can’t manage to get to her mail bag? Some suggest that it may be her tireless work for charity, yet, strangely, Lady Borwick’s parliamentary voting record seems to spit in the face of the charitable causes she purports to support. Recently, she has jumped on the laudable activities of @CleanAirLondon, a much needed initiative to clean up London’s diesel rich environment, yet in the Commons ‘Lazy Borwick’ has consistently voted against climate change measures, and against a greater public control of bus services. Hard to reconcile with the self-promotional pictures of her backing smart energy meters.

    Lady Borwick also claims to support local hospitals and to regularly visit the elderly residents of Kensington. She even spoke at a recent debate in favour of mental health and mobility support. Yet in the House of Commons she has almost always voted against paying benefits to those unable to work due to illness or disability and has consistently voted against the terminally ill being given assistance to end their lives.

    Finally, there are those who suggest ‘Lazy Borwick’ may simply be too busy with parliamentary duties to answer constituents’ letters, yet she spoke in just 15 debates in the last year, well below average amongst MPs, and dramatically lower than previous high profile Kensington MPs.

    Whatever it is that keeps Lady Borwick entertained, it can’t then be serving the interests of her constituents, so to get answers we need to dig further, into her bizarre and odd beliefs about Europe, and her odd use of public funds and ties to ‘Big Data’ business.

    Coming up next – ‘Brexit Borwick’ and residents’ anger in Kensington; the constituency with the greatest proportion of EU nationals of any London borough.

     

    Pictured above – ‘Woman of the people’ Lady Borwick – a “director and member of Poore and Second Poore Ltd; holding companies limited by guarantee” – aboard a 40-metre yacht in 2014 with Sunseeker Cheshire’s Jonathan Kingsley. At the time Mr Kingsley commented: “It was a wonderful opportunity to promote our iconic brand and reinforce the British success of Sunseeker to this high profile, influential Lady. She, and her son, adored the boat”.

    #LazyBorwick

     

  • Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017)

    Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017)

    Wacky Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of the same name as the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge. Bayldon also played ‘Q’ in Casino Royale in 1967, was gay, turned down the role of Dr Who twice thinking the series “too long” and enjoyed collecting watercolour paintings, gardening and walking.

     

    Wacky, gay actor and Catweazle star Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017) – Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of same name. He turned down playing Dr Who twice Wacky, gay actor and Catweazle star Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017) – Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of same name. He turned down playing Dr Who twice Wacky, gay actor and Catweazle star Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017) – Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of same name. He turned down playing Dr Who twice

  • Spirit & Speed

    Spirit & Speed

    Chelsea studio house built for “spiritual artist” Arild Rosenkrantz and later home to the extremely eccentric lesbian heiress and powerboater ‘Joe’ Carstairs for sale for £8.95 million

     

    “Spiritual seeker” and artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) was born in Denmark, studied in Rome and married his Scottish cousin, Louise Mackenzie, in 1901. His commissions included ceiling panels at Claridge’s Hotel in Mayfair and illustrating the Danish edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery Adventure and now a Chelsea home built for him is for sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million).

     

    Designed by the Maidenhead based architect Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) and Grade II listed since 1997, red brick built, 4-storey 5 Mulberry Walk is described as being of a “stripped Classical Mannerist style”. It features the artist’s initials on the rectangular profile downpipe and was his home from when it was finished until 1922.

     

    Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson
    Baron Arild Rosenkrantz and one of his works
    Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson
    Marion ‘Joe Carstairs’ once remarked: “I was never a little girl. I came out of the womb queer”; of her biographer Kate Summerscale added: “She was blithe, bold, courageous, unself-conscious, imperialist, impervious to social change”

     

    Subsequently sold to the eccentric and extremely masculine heiress Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) for £3,000 in the early 1920s (the equivalent of just £167,000, $215,000, €197,000 or درهم791,000 today), 5 Mulberry Walk became the party venue for the “fastest, artiest, gayest, not to mention the most alcoholic and drug-addicted set in London at the time”. Carstairs – a lesbian described as “usually dressed as a man, having tattooed arms, and loving machines, adventure and speed” – remained there well into the 1930s and even had a name plaque for a doll she was obsessed with, ‘Lord Tod Wadley’, placed on the building’s door.

     

    Extending to 3,163 square foot in total, 5 Mulberry Walk is currently divided into two apartments. The first, a ground floor studio with a 32-foot wide garden, has 1 bedroom whilst the second covers three floors and has 4 bedrooms. Each has a large artist’s studio space and in total there are 2 kitchens, 3 bathrooms and a roof terrace as well.

     

    5 Mulberry Walk, which is most definitely ready for modernisation and reconfiguration internally, is offered by Russell Simpson.

     

    Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson

  • Hero of the Hour – Chuka Umunna

    Hero of the Hour – Chuka Umunna

    Chuka Umunna MP speaks sense on Britain’s membership of the Single Market

     

    This morning, Chuka Umunna spoke for many when he was interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme.

     

    The Labour MP commented:

     

    We’re saying from the point of view of London where you’ve got over 600,000 jobs that are linked to our membership of the Single Market, whether you voted to Remain or Leave, you didn’t vote to be poorer.

     

    Our membership of the Single Market was not on the ballot as it were, during that EU Referendum campaign. We’re saying that yes you can be outside of the European Union and be in the Customs Union, like Turkey for example and you be outside the European Union and in the Single Market like Norway.

     

    You can actually reform the ways freedom of movement works within that context. For example, at the moment there’s one thing that we don’t do that could do now under free movement rules – which have never, by the way, been unconditional. So, for example, if somebody comes here, and they’ve been here for three months, they haven’t got work, and there’s no prospects of that, they can be asked to leave. We don’t do that at the moment.

     

    And there are counties in the Single Market like, for example, Lichtenstein who have actually been able to apply quotas to the number of EU citizens coming. So, I don’t accept this kind of binary explanation of how things work.

     

    We can actually stay in the Single Market, have the benefits it brings but also reform the way our immigration arrangements work.

     

    Yesterday, Umunna was joined by sixteen general election candidates to launch a pamphlet called Stop Hard Brexit: Why London needs the Single Market. He should be saluted for this bold move and for his wise words today also.

     

  • The Best 4x4xFar

    The Best 4x4xFar

    Immaculate 1993 Land Rover Range Vogue for sale; its price will astound but its condition will impress

     

    An immaculately presented twenty-four year old Range Rover has gone on sale for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200).

     

    Offered by West London based Graeme Hunt, the 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre is boldly described as “an absolute cracker” and has passed through the firm’s hands twice. The grey with tan interior car has every conceivable extra, an upgraded stereo and a Brooklands body kit.

     

    The present owner, one of Graeme Hunt’s “most endearing and trusting customers”, acquired the vehicle three years ago and “embarked on a stratospheric restoration – a restoration upon which he chose to put his mark on, and in an indulgent manner”. The result is a luxury car complete with carpeting more befitting of a Scottish castle than Kensington and a definite future classic.

     

    The Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range Rover

  • Bob Marshall-Andrews QC

    Bob Marshall-Andrews QC

    A “libertarian-left” Labour MP between 1997 and 2010, distinguished barrister and novelist Bob Marshall-Andrews defected to the Liberal Democrats in 2017. Described as “an irritant” to his former party whilst they were in government, multi-millionaire Marshall-Andrews built and owns “one of the most innovative houses of the 20th century – the famed ‘Teletubby House’ in Druidston, Pembrokeshire – and is chairman of the George Adamson Wildlife Trust. In 2013, of him, Chambers Legal Directory remarked: “Juries love him… I’ve never seen a jury eat out of anyone’s hand as much” whilst he amusingly references himself as “the complete antidote to political humbug”. Of Labour, this “intellectually brilliant” individual added: “They’re a basket case…They effectively abdicated all responsibility [on Brexit]”.

     

    Bob Marshall-Andrews QC – Barrister, former Labour MP and novelist Bob Marshall-Andrews QC – Barrister, former Labour MP and novelist