Excl: Carrie Symonds sent Boris Johnson a letter and a scan picture of their unborn child every day he has been in hospital. Couple haven’t seen each other for almost a month now. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11373807/carrie-symonds-boris-johnson-month-apart/

PM watching films on an iPad while recovering in hospital. Also doing sudoku puzzles. He asked for: Withnail and I and Lord of the Rings. Films he's never seen that aides uploaded: Love Actually, Groundhog Day, Home Alone. No10 source said: “He prefers Greek poetry doesn’t he”.

“Thousands and thousands” of cards and letters for the PM from have arrived at No10. Many of them from children. All being kept in large boxes for him to go through individually on his return.