Brexit: The Camerons take out mortgage on £3.5m Notting Hill house days before Britain votes to leave the EU

The Prime Minister and his wife borrowed against the family home they've owned since 2006 just days before Brexit vote

The four-bedroom family home in Notting Hill which David and Samantha Cameron bought in 2006

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Matilda Battersby29 June 2016

David and Samantha Cameron took out a new mortgage on their £3.5 million Notting Hill townhouse ahead of last week’s EU referendum.

The Prime Minister signalled his intention to resign on Friday after the campaign he spearheaded to remain in the European Union was rejected by the British public who voted to leave.

The Camerons signed a new HSBC mortgage deed dated 15 June 2016 – just eight days before the EU Referendum was to take place – according to the Daily Mail.

Publicly-available Land Registry records show the couples’ signatures were witnessed by Laurence Mann, who gave his occupation as “Political Secretary to the Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street”.

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The decision to take a loan out against the property, which wasn’t previously mortgaged, is being interpreted by some as an indication that Mr Cameron knew he would lose the EU referendum vote.

Earlier this year it was reported that the Camerons have earned an estimated £500,000 renting out their house since moving into 10 Downing Street six years ago.

David and Samantha Cameron standing outside 10 Downing Street, where they have lived for six years, on the morning the PM resigned from government

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The Camerons bought the four-bedroom Edwardian property for £1.1 million in 2006. They also own a house in Mr Cameron’s constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire.

Cameron has been a vocal advocate of home ownership during his government, implementing Help to Buy and Right to Buy schemes and pledging to turn “generation rent into generation buy”.

We have contacted Downing Street for comment.