Boris Johnson is set to become a father again and has also got engaged to his partner.
The Prime Minister and Carrie Symonds have announced that they are expecting a baby in the early summer.
A spokesperson for the couple said: "The Prime Minister and Miss Symonds are very pleased to announce their engagement and that they are expecting a baby in the early summer."
The boy or girl will be at least the sixth child with three different women for the Prime Minister, who is divorcing his second wife.
Johnson, 55, had four children - all adults now - with his estranged wife Marina Wheeler and a love child conceived during an affair with property developer Helen Macintyre.
Asked as recently as December’s general election campaign, Johnson has refused to reveal how many children he has fathered, but Symonds’ pregnancy has renewed questions about the guarded politician’s family life.
There had been speculation for weeks that Symonds - the first unmarried partner of a prime minister to reside in 10 Downing Street - was pregnant with her first child.
The 31-year-old mum-to-be has rarely been seen in public in recent months and has been keeping a low profile since Mr Johnson won last December’s general election.
Symonds, a conservationist and former Conservative Party communications chief, first found herself making headlines when she was romantically linked to Johnson earlier in 2019.
But her association with the PM dates back to when she worked on his successful re-election bid at City Hall in 2012.
An early summer birth would suggest the new arrival was conceived during the Autumn, around the time that the October 31 Brexit deadline was extended.
The engagement announcement means Johnson will become the first British prime minister to marry in office for 250 years, the Telegraph newspaper said.
