Is Larry the Cat set to be expelled from Downing St as JoJo Cat is parachuted in?
The new PM Keir Starmer has evaded analysis of where precisely he is coming from. A Blairite?, a Wilsonite? or something else. We may find out.
There are some things we do know about Starmer. He is an Arsenal season ticket holder, his father was a toolmaker and his mother a nurse and he used to be the DPP. He and certainly the factionalists around him like a good purge.
With this last point in mind the question must be asked is Larry the Cat set to be expelled from Downing St?
Keir Starmer and familhave a 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.
Reports have suggested that Starmer intended to move JoJo from Kentish Town to Downing St. The move has now happened.
Those familiar with cats will know the type, always up for an encounter with other cats and often provoking it. Will Starmer enforce peaceful co-existence between Larry and JoJo or will Larry be expelled?
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