While Theresa May grapples with Brexit and fights to win a General Election, her predecessor has pressing matters of his own to get to grips with.
David Cameron has just bought a £25,000 custom-made hut which he had planned to turn into a writing den for his garden in the Cotswolds.
But the former PM has revealed his children have their own plans for the Farrow and Ball-painted hut.
Mr Cameron, who left Downing Street after Britain voted to leave the EU in a referendum last year, said: "Well, there's been a bit of a fight already.
"My children want to use it as a Wendy House, I want to use it as a book-writing room and my son also wants it as an alternative bedroom. So, quite a lot of competition.
"When it first arrived there was great excitement - who was going to spend the first night in it?
"Who won? That was my son ... I wasn't going to take him on!"
The 16ft x 7ft hut is no ordinary garden shed. It boasts sheep's wool insulation as well as mod cons such as a dimmer light, classic Bakelite switches, a corner-set wood-burning stove and a pull-out double sofa bed.
Mr Cameron and his wife Samantha decided to buy the hut after admiring one owned by his mother-in-law in her garden in Scotland.
He googled the hut and found a company in Oxfordshire called Red Sky Shepherds Huts.
Its founder, Paul Bennett, took a phone call from Mr Cameron saying he wanted to buy a hut.
Mr Bennett says Mr Cameron's policy of allowing people to cash in their pensions at 55 that provided him with the money to set up his business.
He had been in a stressful job and had dreamed of becoming an artisan cabinet maker.
Mr Bennett said: "The new rules allowing people my age to release the money tied up in pensions was like a gift from heaven for me."
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