Caribbean Villa To Let

Without being in receipt of one penny of commission whatsoever, I thought I'd like to advice readers that a splendid Caribbean villa on the island of Mustique is available to rent.

It belongs to that fully paid-up member of the Labour Party and champion of socialist ideals, the Right Honourable Shaun Woodward, MP, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; whose official residence is, of course, Hillsborough Castle.

The Mustique villa can be hired for £27,000 per week.

But clearly business has been good for Woodward, whose wealth comes from his Sainsbury heiress wife Camilla, and now the price has shot up by £11,600 per week.

Details of the rental hike come just days after it was revealed that Woodward and his wife have acquired their seventh home, a sumptuous Alpine ski chalet.

The Woodwards' global property portfolio includes a family home in Cirencester, which has replaced their old Oxford town-house, a £1.35 million flat by the Thames in London, a £7 million villa in The Hamptons on New York's Long Island, a holiday home in the south of France, and the bijoux terrace house in his St Helens constituency.