The bloody purge continued at Downing Street today as Larry the cat, official ‘mouser’ for the past eight years, was seen leaving by a rear flap carrying a small bundle of possessions wrapped in a red spotted handkerchief.
Shortly afterwards, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cat Phaedra appeared at the front door with what appeared to be a half-eaten kipper in its mouth.
Cook Beryl Stirrup told us: “It was so sad, we was all in tears we was. Even Larry had a cry, the vicious little sod.”