Samantha Cameron expecting baby

Conservative Party leader David Cameron's wife Samantha is pregnant, with the baby due in September.

A Conservative Party spokesman said the couple are "completely thrilled" by the news.

Mr Cameron has insisted in recent interviews that he would like to add to their family, admitting he has been feeling broody in the last few months.

When an audience member at the Woodstock Literary Festival in September questioned him about the population growth, Mr Cameron said: "I don't believe Britain is over-populated."

He added: "I don't have any plans to reduce it. I would quite like to add to it, personally, by quite possibly one, at some stage in the future."

And in December, when he came across a nine-hour-old baby in a maternity unit in West Yorkshire, he told reporters: "It makes me want another one."

The couple, who have a four-year-old son, Arthur Elwen and a six-year-old daughter Nancy, suffered tragedy last February when they lost their severely disabled elder son Ivan.

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