Removal van with 330 flat-pack boxes, 30 rolls of tape and 3 rolls of bubble wrap arrives at No10 as Cameron packs his bags
David, Samantha and family will have to find a new home after May's quick victory
REMOVAL vans descended on Downing Street this morning as the Camerons prepared to hand over the keys to Theresa May.
The PM triggered the countdown to his departure hour yesterday when he announced he would be handing in his official resignation to the Queen after PMQs tomorrow.
Mrs May will then be free to move into either the No10 or No11 grace and favour flat - favoured by the Camerons for the extra space.
Mr Cameron had been hoping for a few more months in Downing Street, but his time was cut short yesterday as the current Home Secretary was made Tory leader after Andrea Leadsom dropped out.
He chaired his final Cabinet meeting today where he was given a rousing and "emotional" send off by his team.
He will face Jeremy Corbyn one last time across the despatch box at his final PMQs tomorrow in his last act as Prime Minister.
But it emerged today Mr Cameron may well have been laying the groundwork for a quick exit - even before Britain voted for Brexit on June 23.
The couple banked £800k just days before the historic vote, perhaps sensing the tide was turning against the Remain campaign.
David and wife Samantha mortgaged their four-bedroom family home in leafy Notting Hill.
The couple purchased the property for £1.125million in 2006 as cash buyers and it has been let out for the last six years since the couple and their two children moved into No11 rather No10 as the living space is larger.
It is believed the Camerons current tenants in Notting Hill have been given notice to quit.
The west London home is now estimated to be worth £3.5million and the £800k lump sum will come in useful.
The mortgage was taken out on the same day George Osborne launched the "Brexit Budget" in a last-ditch bid to scare the public into voting Remain.
Despite having to prepare for that day's PMQs, the couple found the time to each sign the HSBC mortgage deed dated June 15, 2016, according to publicly-available Land Registry documents.
The couple also own a £1.3million cottage in his constituency of Witney.
But the Camerons have managed to find a central London home to allow their children to continue their schooling uninterrupted, the Sun revealed today.
Their oldest child Nancy, 12, attends a CofE single sex school near Downing Street, while Elwen, 10, and Florence, five, attend a west London primary school.
The Camerons are understood to be reluctant to sell their Notting Hill home because it has strong emotional ties to Ivan, their son who died aged six in 2009.
He suffered with cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy from birth.
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Despite publicly saying he would stay on in Downing Street after the EU referendum result regardless, Mr Cameron had confided to his aides: “I always knew if I lost I couldn’t be the person to take us out of the organisation I was trying to keep us in.”
As he prepared his resignation statement on June 24, he told his closest confidants: “Why should I do the hard s*** for someone else, just to hand it over to them on a plate?”
The Camerons could use the borrowed cash for planned business ventures, campaigns or charity work.