Baby, Brexit and Trump: Boris Johnson sets up frenetic June juggling commitments at home and abroad

Boris Johnson was already facing a June full of potential sleepless nights, tantrums and crying over spilt milk.

But now he may well have to add the responsibilities of parenting a newborn child.

The Prime Minister, 54, and his partner Carrie Symonds, 31, are believed to be expecting their first child together in  early summer. 

But Mr Johnson is already due to fly to Washington for a G7 summit hosted by Donald Trump that month, where he faces a president angry at him over his refusal to blacklist Chinese firm Huawei.

And last week he also laid down a marker to the EU that he would withdraw the UK from trade talks if insufficient progress had been made in four months time.

It means the new boy or girl will come into the world at an immensely difficult period for Mr Johnson, politically – and could make it difficult for him to take any paternity leave. 

The couple put an end to months of speculation in Westminster last night by declaring that their baby would be born in the ‘early summer’ – and that he would become the first British Prime Minister to marry in office for 200 years.

He is believed to have proposed during the couple’s romantic break in Mustique over Christmas. 

Ms Symonds, 31, released an intimate picture – also thought to have been taken during the trip – on her personal Instagram page of an unshaven Mr Johnson, 55, kissing her cheek, accompanied by a message which made it clear that the couple had been engaged since last year.

She wrote: ‘I wouldn’t normally post this kind of thing on here but I wanted my friends to find out from me… many of you already know but for my friends that still don’t, we got engaged at the end of last year… and we’ve got a baby hatching early summer.’

But while he may be basking in the glow of new fatherhood in June, his face may be glowing for other reasons by the end of the month.

He will meet Mr Trump at the G7 summit at Camp David in Maryland from June 10-12.

It will be their first face-to-face meeting since Mr Johnson’s decision to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to have a role in the UK’s 5G phone network.

The US is furious at the decision, regarding the Chinese state operator a spying and security risk and it has frosted transatlantic relations. 

They have also clashed over Washington’s refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas, the alleged CIA agent accused of killing British teenager Harry Dunn in a Northamptonshire road accident.  

And this week Mr Johnson put Britain on a collision course with the EU, warning Brussels that the Government would pull the plug on trade talks in just four months time if it did not get its way.

The Prime Minister’s administration wants to see the ‘broad outlines’ of a ‘Canada-style’ deal with Brussels before a planned June summit, according to its confrontational official negotiating mandate.

If the two sides remain at loggerheads Britain is ready to withdraw and and concentrate on preparing the country for a bare-bones situation using World Trade Organisation terms under an arrangement with the EU similar to Australia’s.

Meanwhile a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK could collapse if Britain refuses to give adequate fishing rights to European boats, a French minister warned today. 

Amelie de Montchalin said that an agreement between London and Brussels hinged on four factors, with a failure of any one able to kibosh chances of a deal.

As well as fishing in the EU will want accords on free trade, competition rules and governance of the deal encompassing our future relationship, the French European affairs minister said.  

Asked on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme if the EU was willing to collapse the whole agreement for the sake of fishing,  she said: ‘Yes. We said that there are four topics which are linked in negotiations.’