Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to take his family back to a Hebridean island for a summer holiday next month.
The Conservative leader is reported to be planning a three-week break that will include spending time on Jura, as well as Cornwall and the Algarve region in Portugal.
The family has regularly chosen to holiday on Jura, an island famed for its whisky and deer, because Mr Cameron’s father-in-law, Viscount Astor, owns the Tarbert Lodge estate on the island.
The prime minister spoke of his love for the island during a trip in August 2013.
“It’s a great place to unwind. I like the great outdoors. I like an active holiday,” he said.
“The people are incredibly friendly. It’s just a great way to recharge your batteries.
“And when you’re up a hill on a stiff walk and the rain’s coming down and then glorious sunshine with these fantastic views – there’s nowhere better.”
Downing Street said it did not comment on the prime minister’s holiday arrangements but insisted Mr Cameron will continue to be running the country throughout August.
He has previously been forced to interrupt his family holidays, including a 2011 visit to Cornwall as Muammar Gaddafi’s regime collapsed in Libya and a trip to Tuscany as riots broke out across England in the same summer.
In 2013, he returned to deal with the evolving crisis in Syria and last year he abandoned a trip to Portugal after civilians were trapped on a mountainside in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq by advancing Islamic State jihadis.
He later went on to holiday in Cornwall, insisting that “wherever I am, wherever I am in the world, I am always within a few feet of a BlackBerry and an ability to manage things should they need to be managed”.
Mr Cameron also usually visits the Queen while she is on her annual holiday at Balmoral in the north-east.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has not yet revealed any holiday plans for this summer.
Newly-elected Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron will spend the first week of August holidaying in northern Spain.