During his time at the Treasury, Rishi Sunak trumpeted his decision to place a portrait of Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher’s tax-cutting chancellor, behind his desk in No 11 Downing Street.
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Beautiful Portrait, The Queen, by Damien Hirst is one of the most highly prized pieces in the Government Art Collection and has been hung in five Whitehall offices in the space of five years.
They lock horns on a daily basis over thorny questions of policy, often vying against each other for the top jobs. But another fierce battleground for ministers is revealed today: the Government art collection.