Is the new PM, still married ...

Am just watching the first episode of Beecham House, now he is arm candy (John Beech)?

Boris as arm candy?! Can you imagine the sympathetic ‘is that the best you could do’ type looks you’d get if you turned up to a party with him on your arm?

No! We are def not talking about Boris as arm candy!
Callistemon what a thought.?
Just pondering what to call a man who is a mister-ess.
Escort? Though they are paid too (usually.)

gigolo a young man paid by an older woman to be her escort or lover

perhaps not
Not young, dark and slim or Latin enough

Isn't it a gigolo, or do you have to be a woman with money for that?
Boris-arm candy?

Who's the arm candy?
Boris?

Paramour and arm candy.......hmmmm
Mix them up a bit?
Paracandy??

What about "arm candy" ?

In the past the press has always made a great deal about removal lorries outside Downing Street the morning after a general election. It kind of seems odd that No 10 would be an unfurnished flat but then people's tastes are very different.

I hardly dare link to what I read - but I will.
Keep your blood pressure tablets handy, folks!

According to BBC News:
But the Mail On Sunday leads with Mr Johnson's plans for moving into Number Ten.
According to the paper (the MOS), Mr Johnson - the favourite to become prime minister - has been criticised for spending thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money on new furniture, including a bed, because his estranged wife has kept his belongings.
The paper says he had told civil servants he "didn't have any stuff".

Now, call me naïve, but I kind of assumed that Nos 10 and 11 would come fully furnished, apart from perhaps buying new beds for each new family which moved in.

Will Borrie and Carrie use the smaller flat above No 10 and allow Sajid Javid and family to move into No 11?

I read somewhere that Boris doesn't have any furniture because his wife claimed it all when he departs their marriage. Where's the nearest IKEA to Downing Street?

paramour
Now, I like that term, although it does tend towards secrecy whereas Borrie's and Carrie's relationship is very much 'out there'.

Macron has mistresses? Really?
No, he was the other man, well, other boy in fact

But I was thinking back over the years of other French leaders but I suppose they kept their mistresses tucked away in the style which Jane10 mentioned. Much more civilised.

I should think Boris's soon to be ex-wife is rather glad she doesn't have to move into no 11 with him, taking the young people with her. Good luck to Carrie!

According to Wikipedia possible terms for such hunks include mister-ess and paramour, and in the 18th and 19th-century Italy they were known as cicisbeo and cavalier servente.

You don’t half get an education on Gransnet

I don't think she will be low key. I mean, it seems that she has already become a fashion icon with one of her dresses selling out immediately....which journalist was it that said of Johnson and his relationships, now that the beautiful Carrie is established as his partner, that there is now a 'vacancy' for mistress...what interesting times we live in. I thought the Conservatives were supposed to be, well 'conservative'...

'for a woman who keeps a hunk in the background to use about him'

oh lol, where is Jacob when you need him ;). And NO, not to the the hunk ahahaha.

We need a word (for a woman who keeps a hunk in the background to use about him) A male mistress, any ideas?
An English word ( not toy boy, which is two words in any case).

Macron has mistresses? Really?

French President Emmanuel Macron
Now, isn't it a bit dangerous to mention Macron on a thread like this varian? Who knows where the discussion could end up!
The French presidents and their mistresses ……..

A mistress should swan about in a negligee being 'kept' by a sugar daddy. I would visualise one such spending her days popping marrons glaces into the mouth of a pekingese or similar small fluffy dog.
I do agree Jane10 - old-fashioned it may be but there's no point in being a mistress unless it has certain advantages, one being that you don't actually have to live with him!

I couldn’t possibly comment trisher

SirChenjin Are you saying our Honourable PM is a serial philanderer? Surely not!

Crystal - I honestly don’t think she’ll be around long enough to become the next Mrs Johnson

What’s the betting it’ll be like Charles and Camilla. Keeping her in the background, low key wedding, gradually more and more exposure until we’ve all got used to her and forgotten all the previous history. That’s assuming bJ lasts that long in the job.