Baby boy for Boris and Carrie

[RoseAndRose]

Just announced on Beeb

That might explain why he was back but not completely present

Thought she was due later in the year?

Lovely :)

How many children does he have now?

Nice news - always nice when a new baby is born.

But is he about to take paternity leave now??

It's been officially announced, onBBC, so I think it's happened.

We don to really need to know if he arrived early. And perhaps they just played a blinder on hiding due date (unlike the Royals, they didn't say roughly when EDD is, did they?)

aw, hope all are safe

Nobody knows how many children he has apparently. Five or six?

Should call it Barry

Well however many he has, it's nice news.

But I think he should save up paternity leave for later

Does he know how many children he has?

So many threads. All horrible so far.

Thank you for chastising me as horrible.

And there weren't 'so many threads' when I started this one

His absence from briefings etc was being noted yesterday. I still think it's fair comment to surmise that the birth of his nth child was the reason he wasn't present.

the Guardian was making snide remarks 10 minutes before the birth announcement, saying he obviously can't have totally recovered since he wasnt taking pmq
Labour has to get told so that Sir Keir Starmer can know who he will be facing.

As reported earlier, this will be seen as confirmation that Johnson has (understandably) not fully recovered from his three days in intensive care - despite No 10 suggesting otherwise this week. (See 9.22am.)

I bet they wish they could Eat their words.

surely he won't take more time off.

Well the rest of us are being forced too!