But his heart has always been in London and the interior of his W11 home has been designed to his minimalist taste.. A SEASONAL television advert for the Church of England featuring the themes of jail sentences, abortion and adultery was launched yesterday. The script features a series of captions which runs: “He’s on his third marriage She had an abortion when she was 14 He’s been in prison She’s struggling with a drink problem She won’t eat cabbage He hates Christmas … shopping.”
The film is intercut withshots of a congregation and their vicar preaching from the pulpit.

A voice-over from Tamsin Gregg, who plays Debbie Aldridge in The Archers and is a devoted Christian, says: “They’re not hypocrites, they’re human. Not bad for a man who once had to share a room with Tony Blair’s baby daughter while on the hustings.His “other home” is a pounds 70,000 house in his Hartlepool constituency. But no sooner had he secured the fine house in Northumberland Place two years ago than tongues began to wag.
After all, how does a backbench MP, then on around pounds 43,000, move so swiftly without apparent means from a ground-floor flat in Clerkenwell, London, into a fine Notting Hill property?His home is conservatively thought to be now worth about pounds 600,000. MORE THAN a few eyebrows arched in Westminster when Peter Mandelson secured a four-storey Georgian house in London’s fashionable Notting Hill.

For around pounds 475,000 Mr Mandelson was able to land a property surrounded by leading figures from his natural habitat of media and politics. Stenbell paid the salaries of staff on the New Statesman magazine which Mr Robinson owns.However, it is Mr Robinson’s links with Robert Maxwell which will be highlighted following last night’s statement.A long-running DTI investigation into Mr Maxwell’s flotation of Mirror Group Newspapers is still going on and although it is not thought Mr Robinson will be questioned, he did have business links with Mr Maxwell’s son Kevin, who is central to the inquiry.Mr Robinson’s cosy relationship with the Blairs – they have used his Tuscany villa for their summer holidays – has been heavyweight support in the past, but last summer they holidayed elsewhere.. Last month, he was forced to apologise to the House of Commons for not registering his directorship of Stenbell, an administrative firm. His name was included in a list of donors who gave more than pounds 5,000 last year.The embarrassment will be deepened by the fact that Mr Robinson is under pressure to resign after the discovery that he failed to disclose business interests. A letter to them from the DTI suggested inquiries into the issue could be going on.Although Mr Mandelson had denied any conflict, new questions could be raised over whether he should deal with issues relating to Mr Robinson.It suggests closeness in the relationship between them which was not previously known, although Mr Robinson has given substantial sums to the Labour Party. Although rumours had been circulating for some time that Mr Mandelson had received help from a wealthy benefactor in buying his Notting Hill house, no link with Mr Robinson had previously been suspected.Last night’s statement that the Paymaster-General, whose business interests have earned him more that pounds 30m, lent Mr Mandelson more than pounds 250,000 will increase pressure on both men.Conservatives have called on Mr Mandelson to step aside from business decisions on mergers involving both British Airways and BSkyB, both of which have given money to the Millennium Dome, Mr Mandelson’s “pet project”.The statement will fuel new claims that Mr Mandelson should step aside from investigations within the Department of Trade and Industry.Recently it was revealed that the department could be investigating possible breaches of company law by firms associated with Mr Robinson.The Tories say there were irregularities in the accounts of companies owned by the media tycoon Robert Maxwell.