New Prime Minister Andy Burnham has received a brutal welcome to Downing Street after chief mouser Larry bagged a fresh kill right on his doorstep. The 19-year-old rescue cat was spotted casually strolling outside No. 10 on Tuesday morning with a dead mouse dangling from his jaws.
It comes on the same day as Burnham held his first cabinet meeting. The new PM worked right up to the midnight deadline on Monday sacking key members of Sir Keir Starmer’s former government and appointing a fresh line-up.
But while politicians pack their bags, Downing Street’s most ruthless civil servant isn’t going anywhere.