Boris Johnson has dodged questions on whether he’s helping out with childcare, midnight feeds and nappy changing for his son Wilfred.
The Prime Minister has previously indicated he planned to take paternity leave ‘later in the year’.
But asked about it in an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Mr Johnson said: “Ahh, err. It hasn't seemed to crop up so far.”
And asked if he was helping to look after his two-month-old son by changing nappies and giving night feeds, he would only say he’s “both present and involved in a detailed way.”
The PM's fiancee Carrie Symonds announced the birth of their son on April 29, weeks after Covid-19 left him in intensive care.
The "delighted" 55-year-old was by his 32-year-old fiancée's side when she gave birth in an NHS hospital.
The baby was named Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson in a tribute to medics who saved the PM's life.
Nicholas is in tribute to two doctors – conveniently both named Nick – who treated the Prime Minister when he was admitted to intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital in London.
Asked in March if he would take paternity leave, the PM replied: "Almost certainly, yes." But the nation has since been engulfed by the virus crisis.
The Prime Minister's Press Secretary said in April: “I don’t have any exact timings for you, but I do expect the PM to take a short period of paternity leave later in the year, rather than now.”
Paternity leave is meant to end within 56 days of the day the baby was due.
Wilfred is thought to be at least Boris Johnson's sixth child, though the Prime Minister has always declined to say how many offspring he has.
He split from wife Marina Wheeler and a divorce was finalised this year. The couple, who married in 1993, have four children together - Lara, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches, and Theodore Apollo.
But he has had multiple affairs, including the one with Petronella Wyatt which led to a pregnancy that was terminated.
And a 2013 court ruling said the public were entitled to know about claims that one affair - with art consultant Helen Macintyre - resulted in a daughter who was his.
The child's family had sought to stop the father being named. But the Court of Appeal said: “The core information in this story, namely that the father had an adulterous affair with the mother, deceiving both his wife and the mother's partner and that the claimant, born about nine months later, was likely to be the father's child, was a public interest matter which the electorate was entitled to know when considering his fitness for high public office."
Meanwhile today, former Tony Blair has admitted he hasn’t done any housework since being elected Prime Minister in 1997.
He told the Sunday Times he had not done any laundry, food shopping or cooked a meal for his family in 23 years.
Neither has he driven a car.
He said: "There's a lot that isn't normal ... You have the whole security apparatus around you."
Left without staff by the coronavirus pandemic, Mr Blair admitted much of the housework was being done by his wife Cherie, and their children.
