Will Cameron follow in Blairs footsteps by carrying a Downing Street baby?

By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter 424PM GMT twenty-two March 2010

David Cameron, graphic holding a baby on a operative revisit to a sanatorium maternity ward, is to turn a father for the fourth time Photo CHRISTOPHER PLEDGER

Until Tony Blairs son Leo was innate in 2000, the last portion budding apportion to father a kid was Lord John Russell, whose son Francis was innate in 1849.

Before Mr Blair changed in to Downing Street with his immature family in 1997, couple of young kids had ever lived in the close in isolation quarters.

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The Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith had been the last obligatory to move in to Downing Street with young kids when his son Anthony and daughter Elizabeth done their home there in 1908.

John Majors son James was still a teen when his father became budding minister, but he stayed at the family home in Huntingdon with Norma Major to finish his schooling.

In the 1950s the Conservative budding apportion Harold Macmillan continually invited his grandchildren to stay in Downing Street during the propagandize holidays, and the former chancellor Nigel Lawson and his mother Therese lived in No.11 with their young kids Tom and Emily in the 1980s.

But times have changed, and Mr Cameron, whose mother Samantha is due to give bieing innate in September, would turn the third unbroken premier to move in to Downing Street with his children, following in the footsteps of Mr Blair and of Gordon Brown, whose sons John, six, and Fraser, three, were both innate whilst he was chancellor.

The Camerons have dual children, Nancy, six, and Arthur, four, carrying lost their eldest son Ivan, who had intelligent palsy and epilepsy, last year when he was six.