Official Residence
10 Downing Street is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, and not of the prime minister. The only prime ministerial residence is Chequers, a country house in Buckinghamshire used as a weekend and holiday home; however, all modern prime ministers have simultaneously been First Lord of the Treasury, and so 10 Downing Street has come to be identified closely with the prime minister.
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