The Starmers & the Downing St cat issue. Update
Since Keir Starmer became PM we know he has been in Washington to see Biden and that he will be in Berlin on Sunday for the football. His partner Victoria has been horse racing.
Updates on the most important question of the Starmer’s move into Downing St have been harder to come by.
There have been media suggestions that 17 year old mouser Larry the Cat is set to be purged from Downing St.
Keir Starmer and family do have a female cat called JoJo. In an interview in April he noted that his children were more friendly to the cat than they were to him. A familiar syndrome hardly unique to the Labour leader and PM.
Tom Baldwin’s biography of Starmer makes reference to him extracting JoJo from a fight in the back garden and getting a scratch on his thumb as a result.
Some reports have suggested that the Starmers intend to move JoJo from Kentish Town to Downing St. However the Times (13th July) reports that JoJo may stay put in NW5, presumably with a cat minder, and that if she does make to the move to No.10 she will have to behave.
Victoria Starmer is quoted in the Sunday Times (7th July) as being concerned how Larry and JoJo will get along.
Sorting this out is surely Keir Starmer’s key 100 day mission
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