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		</div><p>Boris Johnson is expected to take a short period of paternity leave later this year, a Downing Street spokesman has said.</p>
<p>Following the birth of the British Prime Minister’s son, questions were raised about whether he would take any paternity leave amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson’s fiancee Carrie Symonds gave birth in a London hospital on Wednesday morning, and a spokeswoman for the couple said both mother and baby were doing well.</p>
<p>It is understood Mr Johnson was present throughout the delivery, with the news that he would be absent from Prime Minister’s Questions coming shortly before the birth was announced.</p>
<p>A Downing Street spokesman confirmed Mr Johnson is expected to take paternity leave in the future.</p>
<p>The spokesman told a Westminster briefing: <i>“I do expect the Prime Minister to take a short period of paternity leave later in the year, rather than now.”</i></p>
<p>The spokesman confirmed the family will live in Downing Street but could not confirm weight, timing, nature or location of the birth.</p>
<p>New fathers are entitled to up to two weeks of statutory paternity leave.</p>
<p>However, while this leave cannot start before the child’s arrival, it must end within 56 days, or eight weeks, of the birth.</p>
<p>This statutory leave is paid at £151.20 (€173.22) per week, or 90% of average weekly earnings, depending on which is lower.</p>
<p>Expectant fathers must give at least 15 weeks’ notice to their employer.</p>
<p>Some couples are entitled to take 50 weeks of shared parental leave in the first year after a birth or adoption, although the eligibility criteria are narrower than for the statutory benefit.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds’s son is the third baby born to a serving prime minister in recent history.</p>
<p>Former prime ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron took paternity leave after the births of their children while in office.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson previously indicated that it was likely he would take paternity leave.<br />
When asked in early March whether he intended to take time off, Mr Johnson said: <i>“The answer is almost certainly, yes.”</i></p>
<p>But he later added: <i>“I can’t remember what the question was.”</i></p>
<p>Since then, the coronavirus outbreak has progressed significantly.</p>
<p>The number of people who have died in hospital with Covid-19 has reached over 20,000, with the number of daily deaths reaching their highest so far in early April.</p>
<p>The nationwide lockdown imposed on March 23 is set to be reviewed early next month.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister only returned to Downing Street on Monday, after contracting the virus.</p>
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