Archer 'to live in London'

Archer will not be living with Lady Archer at the family home

Disgraced peer Lord Archer will not live at the family home in Cambridgeshire when he is released from jail.

Sources suggest the 63-year-old has asked probation officers to register his multi-million pound Thames-side flat as his home.

The move was unexpected, as Lady Archer spends nearly all her time at their £1.5m country home, the Old Vicarage at Grantchester near Cambridge.

Probation sources said Archer planned to be supervised by probation teams in London.

Archer is due to be released on Monday from Hollesley Bay open prison in Suffolk after serving two years and two days of a four-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice.

His flat on the Albert Embankment was the scene of his champagne and shepherd's pie parties for influential journalists and top politicians and businessmen.

Licence conditions

One of the conditions of his licence will be that he lives at his "designated address".

He will need his probation officer's permission to spend the night away, even if it is to visit his wife and sons in Grantchester.

The former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party will have to report to probation officers on a regular basis for a year.

He will not be able to travel abroad, except in exceptional circumstances.

And his probation officer must approve any kind of paid work Archer undertakes.

This could include the earning of royalties from the second volume of his prison diaries, expected to be announced by his publishers next week.

Reoffending or doing anything that damages his re-integration into the community would see Archer sent back to jail.