Page 38 Daily Mail, Thursday, August 1, 2019
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@sebshakespeareEx-Labour MP who
had a butler puts
his £7m seaside
house up for sale
H
e has been upwardly
mobile ever since his
wedding day, when
he and his bride,
supermarket heiress
Camilla sainsbury, left the
reception by helicopter.
so it’s intriguing to observe the
latest manoeuvrings by political
turncoat shaun Woodward, once
famously said to be the only Labour
MP with a butler.
For I can disclose that Woodward —
elected as a Tory MP in 1997 only to
cross the floor barely two years
later — has just put his fabulous
house in the hamptons, on america’s
north-east coast, on the market with
a price tag of more than £7 million,
and is intending to spend more time
in London.
Unlike Tony Blair’s former
mouthpiece, alastair Campbell, whoWIN £10,000 OF NATIONAL LOTTERY TICKETS
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this Saturday’s Lotto draw.has announced that he has
forsaken Labour while it is led
by Jeremy Corbyn, the
adaptable Woodward, who
stood down as MP for st helens
south and Whiston at the 2015
election, has already declared
that he will be voting for Labour
at the next election — and
would ‘serve my party again’ if
the opportunity arose.
‘People underestimate Jeremy
Corbyn,’ he argued during his
most recent interview.
Few would doubt that the60-year-old, who married his
heiress bride in 1987, is capable
of altering course in the most
dramatic fashion.
he and Camilla, with whom
he has four children, including
food blogger Deliciously ella,
bought the hamptons house
— boasting a home theatre,
gym and library — for
£1.6 million in 2013.
But in recent years he has
shared it not with Camilla,from whom he announced his
separation in December 2015,
but with cameraman Luke
Redgrave, grandson of
sir Michael Redgrave and
nephew of Oscar-winning
actress and far-Left activist
Vanessa Redgrave.
Woodward, who served as a
Northern Ireland secretary
under Gordon Brown, was
unavailable for comment.
While he is thought to bemoving back to London to be
closer to his family (daughter
ella has just become a mother)
his possible return to
Westminster would be a source
of fascination to many — not
least those who try to keep
track of his property portfolio.
at one time it numbered at
least six residences, including
a villa in Mustique, a house in
France and a chalet in the
swiss alps.WHEN her great-great-great grandfather,
William Gladstone, was prime minister, he
released the tensions of office by taking
an axe to the trees at his Hawarden estate
in North Wales. But model-turned-
acupuncturist Olivia Inge has something
less violent in mind for Boris Johnson.
‘Everyone is welcome in my clinic,’ she
assured me in the Fitzdares Club enclosure
at Goodwood yesterday, where she was
celebrating her latest acupuncture
diploma. ‘I wouldn’t turn down Boris, as
politicians also need acupuncture love.’
If only she could puncture political
pretensions, too.Olivia’s stress
cure for Boris...
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