SInce becoming PM on 4th July Keir Starmer has faced several urgent issues, not least a week of riots by far right inspired racists early in August. He subsequently cancelled a summer holiday.
However with Parliament sitting again for the first half of September a key issue remains unresolved, the Downing St cat flap. The Starmers have moved into Downing St from their Kentish Town residence and that includes the family cat JoJo. They have now added a third kitten after lengthy negotiations with their daughter.
How JoJo and the new as yet unnamed kitten will co-exist with the existing No.10 cat remains an open and so far unknown matter. Starmer has confirmed that he planned a cat flap so that JoJo could get out into the Downing St garden at the rear, made famous by Johnson’s COVID parties. Unfortunately so far the theory has not been turned into practice because the heavy security doors make it difficult to fit a cat flap. That no doubt explains why the No.10 cat is always to be seen prowling around at the front of the building.
Will blasting the bloody door off work perhaps?
Starmer’s biographer Tom Baldwin also reported in the Times that while the PM’s daughter wanted a dog, the plan was to acquire a companion cat for JoJo. There could be trouble ahead
Not so much a flap, as a tunnel