David and Samantha Cameron could use money raised on their Notting Hill home for a more luxurious holiday than those enjoyed while he was prime minister

Even if David Cameron has concerns about what the future holds, he has just banked £800,000 to help cope with life outside No 10.

Just days before the European Union referendum, perhaps sensing which way the result was going, the prime minister and his wife, Samantha, mortgaged their four-bedroom family home in Notting Hill, west London. It was bought without a mortgage for £1.125 million in 2006 and has been let out while the family lived in Downing Street. The tenants are believed to have been given notice to quit.

The house is now estimated to be worth £3.5 million, and the £800,000 lump sum will come in useful for the Camerons’ planned business ventures, campaigns and charity work. It would also help to pay