"I'd rather not spend taxpayers' money, by the way, like the last Labour government, which spent £500,000 of taxpayers' money on the Downing Street flat"

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The £500,000 figure is what you get if you adjust for inflation (ie rising prices) and add up all the spending over the period of Labour governments between 1997 and 2010.

Reviewed by BBC Reality Check ↗ · April 28, 2021