On 29th February Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds announced that they are expecting a baby and that they have got engaged. The couple have been living together in Downing Street since Johnson became prime minister in July 2019. Symonds has become the first unmarried prime ministerial partner in history, and the couple expecting the birth of the child in the early summer.
The prime minister is believed already to be the father of at least five children with two women – his second wife Marina Wheeler, whom he married in 1993, and art consultant Helen Macintyre, with whom he had an extramarital affair. He has always refused to say how many children he has in total.
