How Cambridge-educated Fuel Minister Liz Kendall and associate dwell on estimated £760,000 mixed wage in historic Notting Hill mansion

The elegant, four-storey townhouse occupies an enviable position in one of Notting Hill’s most desirable white-stuccoed enclaves.

Since Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall and her partner, James Ind, paid £3.9 million for the Victorian property three years ago, their well-heeled neighbours have included such notable cultural figures as Britpop icon Damon Albarn, PR supremo Matthew Freud and comedian Jack Whitehall.

As a coveted end-of-terrace, the historic mansion on its magnolia-lined street probably costs far more to heat than Kendall’s constituency home.

But such trifles are unlikely to trouble the couple unduly. Their combined salary is, after all, an estimated £760,000, allowing them to live a life of privilege far out of reach of the average taxpayer – and far beyond that of most Labour MPs.

While Ms Kendall, 53, takes home a £67,505 ministerial salary in addition to her £91,346 pay as an MP, her partner is an Old Etonian banker whose pay packet is thought to be around £600,000.

Mr Ind, who went on to study at Durham University and the prestigious Cass Business School after leaving £52,000-a-year Eton College, now works as ‘global head of multi-asset solutions’ at Santander Asset Management.

All-in-all, it’s not a bad life for a grammar schoolgirl from a leafy village in Hertfordshire – one whose prior romantic history includes a long-term relationship with comedian Greg Davies.

Her childhood was, by any standards, determinedly middle-class and unblemished by failure.

Cabinet Minister Liz Kendall lives on an estimated combined salary of £760,000 with her partner James Ind

The couple live together in a £4million home in Notting Hill, West London

Mr Ind is an Old Etonian banker whose pay packet is thought to be around £600,000

Her father became a senior official in the Bank of England while her mother was a primary-school teacher, and after scoring top marks at Watford Grammar School for Girls, where she was a pupil alongside Geri Halliwell, she secured a place studying history at Cambridge. 

Three years after graduating with a first-class degree she started working for Harriet Harman, becoming her special adviser after Labour’s landslide victory in the 1997 General Election, which saw Ms Harman elevated to Secretary of State for Social Security. After stints working for health charities, her own political ambitions were fulfilled when she was elected MP for Leicester West in 2010.

One of the few challenges she has failed to win was her bid for leadership of the party as a Blairite successor to Ed Miliband in 2015 (she finished fourth, with 4.5 per cent of the vote). The run-up to the election that year also saw the end of her relationship with 6ft 8in Davies.

She has remained tight-lipped about their romance, only speaking to confirm they were no longer together but ‘remain really good friends’.

It remains unclear how she and Mr Ind, 53, crossed paths, or whether they have married. They welcomed a son, Henry, via a surrogate

in January 2022 and said it made them ‘feel unbelievably lucky and happier than we ever imagined’.

A self-confessed hip-hop fan, Liz has said she’s ‘happiest while dancing’. Perhaps it’s all the way to the bank.