Another royal pair rip us off

And there is a 24-year age difference between Boris Johnson and his bidey-in Carrie Symonds.

Two men with gargantuan egos, who share a reputation for philandering and dubious attitudes to women, as well as a taste for much younger paramours, could soon be blowing kisses to each other from their seats of power at either side of the Atlantic.

Melania is thought to be a reluctant First Lady, resentful of the loss of a carefree socialite lifestyle.

She says little and prefers to stay mute and pretty in her gilded cage.

But what can we expect of 31-year-old Symonds?

Anyone else think she should make a no-deal departure of her own before her lover gets the keys to No10 – for her own sake and ours?

At time of writing, we still don’t know what went on in Symonds’s £1million gaff in south London.

We do know this is a new relationship which should be in its first flush of romance. They’ve only been together for about nine months and already the police have been called to an altercation. There are reports of several blazing rows – at a time when it should be all hearts and flowers and soppy PDAs.

If the normal course of political relationships was being followed, Johnson would be rushing Symonds up the aisle in order to present himself as a committed, dependable guy who represents security in both his private and public life.

That’s exactly what Ed Miliband did in 2011. He married his long-term partner, Justine, less than two weeks after he launched his campaign to become leader of the Labour Party, even though they’d been together for nine years and had two kids. The last