Georgina,

£950 for a flat in London is actually pretty modest you may be amazed to find out.

In the gritty south east I was paying £750 a month for a 1 bedroom flat. My current 2 bedroom flat is £875 per month, and that is at a special discount rate because I and my daughter were what the landlady was looking for, so she was prepared to make it affordable so we could move in and look after her place for her.

Laws would have had his flat in a considerably more expensive area, so I would suggest, as nuts as it sounds to someone from outside London, that he was also getting a bargain.

When I lived in Leicester I had a large 3 bed house for £450.

Yes it is crazy!