I’d like to become a mother, says Ruth
SCOTTISH Tory leader Ruth Davidson is to have a ‘serious talk’ about motherhood with her fiancée Jen Wilson after the General Election.
In an interview with the Mail, the 38year-old politician said she had always wanted to be a mother and the couple were keen to start a family ‘soon’.
Miss Davidson, who proposed to her partner on a break in Paris last year, said: ‘We are going to have a serious talk about it in the summer, after the election. I have always had the idea that I would like to be a mother.’
However, she declined to discuss which of them would carry the child.
The politician, a devout Christian, also spoke about her disappointment that the same-sex marriage could not take place in a church. She said: ‘It is sad, but we will do something instead that works for us.’
Miss Davidson said the two of them were planning to move out of their rented flat in Edinburgh and buy a ‘house with a garden and a front door of our own’.
Recalling her proposal in Paris, she said she had originally wanted to pop the question near the Sacré-Coeur church but was put off by all the souvenir salesmen selling tat nearby.
‘Not the most romantic place in the world, actually,’ she said.
Then she planned to ask for her partner’s hand in marriage over an upmarket evening meal – but that went wrong when Miss Wilson said she wanted to eat in an outdoor café.
‘I had the ring in its box on me and it felt bigger and bigger throughout the day,’ she said.
‘I didn’t think Jen would say no, but the idea that there was just even a chance she might was terrifying.’