Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she won't be letting partner Clarke Gayford off the hook by asking him to marry her.
Ardern laughed raucously when asked whether a marriage proposal on her part might be in the couple's near future in an interview with the BBC overnight (NZT).
During a wide-ranging interview, host Victoria Derbyshire asked Ardern if she could imagine asking Gayford to marry her.
"I would not ask, no. No."
![PM Jacinda Ardern tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire she will leave partner Clarke Gayford to go through "the pain and torture" of having to agonise about popping the question himself. Photo / BBC](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/DFMDEMYOIBPIC252VE7VJ7ATUA.png?auth=a58a68341309ae03731f0ad6952e4e22aea92485083107b558b47bb89f6b1dbc&width=16&height=9&quality=70&smart=true)