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There’s a ‘Cat-astrophe’ Brewing on Downing Street

WSJ unpaywalled: “…Larry, the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, has now outlasted five prime ministers—and their pets. A British icon, he has his own unofficial X account, with 900K followers. He is so well known that Downing St. has even reportedly made plans for how to break the news of his eventual death (Larry is 17).  Which brings us back to Starmer, the sixth British leader of Larry’s tenure. Starmer, his wife, Victoria, and two teenage children moved into 10 Downing in July after a sweeping election victory. But another family member also moved in: JoJo, a male ginger cat. JoJo has yet to meet Larry, and the family is working out how to engineer an encounter that doesn’t end in flying fur, according to sources familiar with the matter. The Daily Mail tabloid warned of a “cat-astrophe” if the meeting goes wrong…”

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