10 Downing Street

The house is 10 Downing Street (pronounced ten Downing Street) is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, who is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1905, always at the same time. It is situated in the center of London on a side street off Whitehall. The stretch of road was built in the 17th century. About the House wrote Winston Churchill in his book on the Second World War, it was " the then greed built according dissolute ".

The house is sporadically since 1735 and continuously since 1902 the residence of the respective Prime Minister. Originally, it was the number 5 Previously lived there until the year 1732 Hans Caspar von Bothmer, First Minister of the German Affairs of George I.

10 Downing Street is closely related to the more spacious house next door (No. 11 ), which is the official residence of the Second Lord of the Treasury ( an office which is ex officio clothed by the Chancellor ). Because of the size of the Blair family in 1997 it was necessary to modify the arrangement so that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown the house No. 10 and Tony Blair the house No. 11 related.

Currently David Cameron as Prime Minister inhabited the house 10 Downing Street.

During the tenures of Harold Wilson (1964-1970 and 1974-1976) the home of a major renovation so was subjected to it then amounted to a completely new construction. In 1991, IRA terrorists committed a grenade attack on Downing Street. 10 Since then, but especially after 11 September 2001, security measures have been tightened considerably.

The door of 10 Downing Street can only be opened from the inside and has no keyhole on the outside.