No. 10’s Downing Street’s Cat Larry unperturbed by new PM Liz Truss

Larry’s duties as “greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defences and testing antique furniture for napping quality“. It says he is “contemplating a solution to the mouse occupancy of the house“ and has told Downing Street that such a solution is still in the “tactical planning stage“. Unlike his predecessors since 1929, Larry’s upkeep is funded by the staff of 10 Downing Street. Fund-raising events to pay for his food are believed to have included a quiz night for Downing Street staff held in the staterooms. Larry has been criticised for both his temperament and job performance. Within a month of his arrival at Downing Street, anonymous sources described Larry as having “a distinct lack of killer instinct.“ Later that year, it was revealed that Larry spent more time sleeping than hunting for mice and shared the company of a female cat, Maisie. At one point in 2011, mice were so endemic in Downing Street that the Prime Minister,