Larry (cat)
Larry has been Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011. He is a rescued stray cat from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. He was intended to be a pet for the children of David and Samantha Cameron.
About Larry (cat) in brief
Larry has been Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011. He is a rescued stray cat from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Larry was intended to be a pet for the children of David and Samantha Cameron. He has a reputation of being ‘violent’ in his interactions with other mousers. In 2011, Larry was banned from the Prime Minister’s quarters as his fur was ruining the PM’s fresh suits. In 2013, a cat-proof barrier was erected to prevent Larry and his neighbour Freya from getting into the Foreign Office. In July 2015, George Osborne and Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock cornered a mouse in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s office, trapping it in a brown paper sandwich bag. In December 2015, former Home Secretary, David Blunkett suggested that Larry should be asked to increase his responsibilities to include the Palace of Westminster. As of January 2020, Larry has retained his position with the Boris Johnson administration. David Cameron has said that Larry is a bit nervous around men, speculating that, since Larry was a rescue cat, this may be due to negative experiences in his past.
In 2016, there were concerns that Larry was stressed and could be missing from the Cameron family. In August 2016, former chairman of the Public Standards Committee, Sir Alair Graham responded to the concerns over Larry, saying that he could not take Larry with him in the event of a Labour government. The Daily Telegraph suggested that Cameron never really liked cats, but that spin doctors believed that Larry could make the PM appear more friendly in office. When David Cameron left office in 2016, he spoke of his’sadness’ that he couldn’t take his cat with him. When Theresa May became Prime Minister, he became the odds-on favourite to leave Downing Street with Larry as the 64-year-old was the outsider. The Labour Party has confirmed that Larry would remain as chief Mouser in a Labour Government.
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