He has just married his long term partner Adele and is on honeymoon.

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While it rewards couples for getting married when just one has a job, it punishes couples for getting married when they both have high-paying jobs.

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But his much-publicised romance with Carla Bruni, an Italian former supermodel and singer, whom he married on February 2nd, just over three months after he divorced his second wife, has nonetheless dismayed voters.

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