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You can now tour 10 Downing Street using Google Street View — here's how

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A view of the door to number 10 Downing Street. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Sure, looking around Google Maps' Street View for the real Ghostbusters HQ and a pair of samurais battling to the death can be fun. But have you ever wondered what it'd be like to look inside some of the places you're drifting through?

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Well, thanks to a recent update, you can now look inside none other than the Prime Minister's house.

Google has snapped the interior of 10 Downing Street for Street View, meaning us regular schmoes can snoop around the PM's official residence for the first time ever. 

Starting today, you'll be able to virtually tour the 332-year-old building, which is, as you might guess, usually closed off to the public in real life.

From here, you can click your way through the Cabinet room, the Thatcher Room and the rose garden where David Cameron and Nick Clegg's coalition government's first press conference was held.

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The shots are from January 2016 — you know, before all that EU Referendum business — meaning that some chic pinstripe wallpaper may have been installed and the historic paintings binned in the meantime.

If any changes have been made, they won't all be because of current PM Theresa May. 

Apparently like her predecessors David Cameron and Tony Blair she opted to swap private accommodation next-door neighbour, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond – so actually lives above No 11 Downing Street.

When wandering around the hallowed halls, we have two key takeaways:

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Someone needs to replace this dirty mat…

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And Google's Street View cameras enjoy snapping mirror selfies…

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