Liz Truss family

It is rare for prime ministers not to come to Downing Street with children in tow: David Cameron was the first prime minister to take paternity leave while in ...

Norma Major took it to a further extreme and lived separately with the young children in Huntingdon for some of the time her husband, John, was prime minister. “But I don’t want to go,” wailed the six-year-old. Guests in the Cameron Downing Street living room were expected to balance kids on their knees. But exactly how – and, indeed, whether – the new prime minister blends work and family in Downing Street remains to be seen. Recalling a war cabinet meeting that he attended, Stothard wrote that “in the half-darkness, the rooms resemble the site of a hastily finished children’s party. All the security arrangements make it incredibly hard for people to come and go,”