David Cameron's wife is pregnant

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Baby is due in September

So baby could possibly be born at No. 10 Downing street....

What kitty said, beautifully put.

surely most of these comments are said with tongues firmly in cheek and people are taking this all a bit too seriously.
It is nice news but we are all entitled to our own opinion. Personally I am amazed they found the time or energy to make a baby. Me and my DH have normal jobs and only just managed it!

I think it is lovely news
And I hope it brings them much joy and happiness
(but am LOLing at whoever said that William Hague had suggested it, if there wasn't a 20 point lead by March in the polls)
And am that people think you can plan these things
There is probably not an optimum time to plan these things for when you are leader of the opposition
Life goes on, and yes, they lost a son and that tends to focus your mind on the stuff that really matters

"And Gordon wasn't advised to have a wife and kids if he wanted the top job?"
Yeah, he probably was. Never said he wasn't. And I think that Sarah Brown's PR skills are a big part of why she has been so liked as PM's wife. There's nothing wrong with being good at PR

"I just find the whole blurring of 'human interest', political 'personality' and actual policy making really distasteful."

Yes, but unfortunately it is a fact of life. The personal and political are inextricably linked - the actions of politicians in their private lives can bring down governments, see Profumo Affair. If you decide on a career in politics, you accept that your private life is open to scrutiny and use by your PR people. It's the price people pay for power.

I agree with those congratulating the Camerons, getting really sick of the level of bitching and paranoia on MN of late.

The Cameron family are used to being a team of five; and that empty space, although it may not be filled by this new baby, might well be easier to bear. Perhaps that was their motive if there was one at all.

Congratulations to them both.I can't begin to imagen what they have been through or the need to have another after their loss.

I think it will be tough to be pregnant and go through an election Good luck to them.

Yeah Brahms - I know you're right, but the Profumo affair had really direct political relevance didn't it? E.g. he was compromising national security potentially (must confess I'm not au fait with details)...I think the blurring of personal and political has hit new lows with the WAGS all coming out and declaring their lurve for their men /'heroes' (barf) and GB talking to Piers bloody Morgan etc etc etc It's all so tabloid.

P.S. I really like your first and fourth rackets as well as your violin concerto.

Agree with northernlurker and kitty,goodluck to them

agree with kitty - though also with GetOrfMoiLand that this goes in the 'why is this news?' category. Great for them. now, can we have some politics please?

only a few weeks to a genereal elction and we're wasting airtime talking about this?

kittycat, I do agree. I hate the overshare thing, bloody Blair started it if you ask me. ('Call me Tony' - NO! I will not)

Yes the Profumo affair was explosive (nearly literally, haha) because of the Soviet link but, e.g. if Cameron was exposed as having an affair now his ratings would bomb, even if it had no political relevance. There has always been a belief that if someone is putting themselves up as a leader and telling others what to do, then their own lives must be ideal and reach a level of transparency far beyond what we would expect from a normal person. When you choose to go into politics, you sign up for it.

I'm sure Samantha Cameron is a very nice lady and I'm pleased for her with the new baby on the way, but I'm bored of hearing about her tbh. I don't care if she is a coke-dealing baby-eater as long as her husband is good at his job.

Good luck to them. This way the autumn will be happy for them no matter what.

Isn't this having young children at No 10 (or 11) partly a consequence of having younger prime ministers, who will be of an age where they're still adding to their family, rather than 60 and 70 year-olds?

I think they will lose votes because cameron will be perceived as unable to give full attention to the job while having sleepless nights

good luck to them, they deserve to be happy, so I hope all goes well.

I thought it was a mumsnet saying (from lots of weird/evil MIL threads) that the only appropriate response to "I'm pregnant" is "congratulations".

This thread is an education otherwise.

They have my best wishes. I'll keep my voting intentions private for the [whatever]th May.

I cannot believe some of the horrible comments that have been made on this thread. How petty. .

I'm not one of the they-planned-it brigade, and I'm sure they're pleasant enough people one to one. But DC commenting, in the context of having another child (and before the pregnancy announcement)that he didn't think Britain was overpopulated made me guffaw a bit. Just wait till he's talking immigration policy and especially asylum policy - suddenly he won't find much room for many more children in Britain. Not that Labour's been a model of compassion either.

Congratulation to them. I dont think it matters whether they planned it or not. I will be voting on policies.

Of course good luck to them....but SC does put herself out there for the Press. You do that, you are destined to take all the crap that comes flying at you.

I wouldn't put it past them to coordinate this baby...why not? If they both love each other..look how it's made a lot of you go all slushy over them...now multiply that by a few million. People have been known to have babies for possibly unethical reasons (eg. to get bone marrow for an older sick child).

SC and SB are both royally pissing me off...they have no political qualifications...who cares what they do in their private lives as long as they're not selling State secrets!

Let's hope the baby has David's chin...I know you were all thinking that!

Oh ffs! Fizzfiend your post is vile. You know nothing about their motivation for having another child and your speculation is apalling. As for 'you are destined to take all the crap that comes flying at you.' - does that include the bastard photographers who took a picture of her as she came home from the hospital where her son died and the even more bastard newspapers who published it?

If the Camerons considered the election at all I think it was mostly likely in a concern that people would think they were trying to win votes. Then I expect they put that thought aside reasoning that nobody could be as much of a reptilian fuckwit to actually believe that.

Good luck to them with the baby, but I wish them very bad luck with the elections!

Fizzfiend, of course: a baby= millions of extra votes. Politicians know that! People fall for it.
And you get lots of for saying it as it is.