Then a four-year-old stray picked up by former Prime Minister David Cameron from Battersea Canines and Cats Residence, Larry is now onto his fourth Prime Minister, Liz Truss.
He doesn’t appear within the new PM, after being pictured trying away moodily in the wrong way a number of occasions.
Formally often called the Chief Mouser to the Cupboard Workplace, Larry’s duties embody ridding quantity 10 of rodents, one thing he discovered to do throughout his time as a stray.
Different every day duties embody greeting company to the home, inspecting safety defences, and testing vintage furnishings for napping high quality.
The chief mouser was lately caught in motion in a viral video that has been shared on-line by Sky Information, the place Larry could be seen stalking a fox who prowls on the well-known road and chases it down the road.
Larry appeared fairly pleased with his achievement.
In response to Larry’s official description on the ten Downing Road authorities web page, he’s additionally within the means of “considering an answer to the mouse occupancy of the home. Larry says that is nonetheless ‘in tactical starting stage’.”
Larry is not the one cat of Westminster, his neighbours embody Palmerston, the International Workplace cat; Gladstone, the Treasury cat; and Evie and Ossie, the Cupboard Workplace cats.
A number of fights between Palmerston and Larry have damaged out through the years, one significantly vicious scrap kicked off in 2016 leading to Larry’s collar being ripped off.
Click on via the gallery above to see the 12-year-old tabby, Larry the Cat, in motion.