How prime ministers cope with bringing a baby into No 10

Boris Johnson is likely to find achieving a balance between work and family life as difficult as previous PMs did

Days after a shocked Tony Blair, aged 46, and his wife, Cherie, 45, announced that they were to be the parents of the first child born in wedlock to a serving prime minister in more than 150 years, this reporter found himself in the prime minister’s office asking him about his choice of contraceptive.

It is probably the first and last time the issue had come up in an interview with a serving prime minister. But my strong memory is that my editor at the time had absolutely no interest in the 2000 London mayoral elections, the ostensible subject of the interview, and only in how Blair, three years into his first term and racked by Northern Ireland, had inadvertently become a father for the fourth time, and what it would mean for his prime ministership.

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