{"id":255844,"date":"2016-07-14T07:12:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-love-larry-the-downing-street-cat-ill-prove-it-cameron-tells-mps\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T07:12:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:12:45","slug":"i-love-larry-the-downing-street-cat-ill-prove-it-cameron-tells-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-love-larry-the-downing-street-cat-ill-prove-it-cameron-tells-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I love Larry the Downing Street cat & I\u2019ll prove it!\u2019 Cameron tells MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Outgoing British leader David Cameron has used his final prime minister\u2019s questions (PMQs) on Wednesday to put to rest a rumor he doesn\u2019t love Larry the cat, the chief mouser at Number 10 Downing Street.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe rumor is that I don\u2019t love Larry. I do. And I have photographic evidence to prove it,\u201d<\/em> Cameron told Parliament.<\/p>\n

He then produced a large picture of himself and Larry cuddling in an armchair.<\/p>\n

Cameron also confirmed Larry would not face eviction from 10 Downing Street when new PM Theresa May takes up residence on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, I can\u2019t take Larry with me. He belongs to the house and the staff love him very much – as do I,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

Larry had the chance to meet May on Wednesday morning when she arrived for Cameron\u2019s final cabinet meeting, and watched her closely from behind the railings.<\/p>\n

There are concerns Larry might not get as much affection from May, as the new PM is reportedly allergic to cats.<\/p>\n

With the recent Tory leadership contest and an attempted coup in the Labour ranks since Britain\u2019s vote to leave the EU, there\u2019s been a fair amount of political infighting at Westminster.<\/p>\n

Larry, too, has been forced to defend his turf, recently seen facing off with the Foreign Office cat, Palmerston.<\/p>\n

Larry, who has been described as having \u201ca high chase-drive and hunting instinct\u201d<\/em> is a rescue cat from London\u2019s Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and was chosen by Downing Street staff.<\/p>\n

It is believed he was brought on as chief mouse-catcher after rats were seen on two occasions behind television news correspondents reporting live.<\/p>\n

After moving into Downing Street in 2007, Larry immediately caused controversy by taking a swipe at an ITV reporter while being made to pose for a news item.<\/p>\n

Cameron has said Larry is a \u201cbit nervous\u201d<\/em> around men, speculating he may have had some negative experiences before being rescued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outgoing British leader David Cameron has used his final prime minister\u2019s questions (PMQs) on Wednesday to put to rest a rumor he doesn\u2019t love Larry the cat, the chief mouser at Number 10 Downing Street. \u201cThe rumor is that I don\u2019t love Larry. I do. And I have photographic evidence to prove it,\u201d Cameron told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}