Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford announce engagement!

The Prime Minister is engaged to her longtime partner, Clarke Gayford

The couple, who are parents to 10-month-old daughter Neve, became engaged over Easter, a spokesman for Jacinda Ardern said.

A ring, thought to be diamond, was spotted by reporters on the PM's hand at a ceremony at Pike River on the West Coast today,

In an interview with the BBC in January, Ardern said she wouldn't propose to Gayford.

"Absolutely I am a feminist', Ardern said.

"But no, I want to put him through the pain and torture of having to agonise about that question himself. No, that's letting him off the hook," she said.

This article was first published on nzherald.co.nz and is republished here with permission.