It is a scenario familiar to many parents: a child who has reached adulthood but is reluctant to leave the comforts of home.

Not many parents will have recourse to a £3 million apartment in which to relocate their offspring. However, that is the situation for Amber Rudd, the former Home Secretary, whose daughter has written an article about flying the nest.

Flora Gill has moved into the west London home of Rudd’s late parents, situated in one of the area's finest postcodes.

“It was my mother’s suggestion - she was sick of her 27-year-old eating all the food and filling up the Sky box at her place, and claimed to have better things to do than pick up after me.

“I’d have had more grounds to argue with her had she not been Home Secretary at the time,” Gill writes in this month’s Tatler magazine.