Letting go at No.10 – Big Issue

Dink cartoon – Outside the front door of no.10 Downing Street Larry the Cat sits next to a mouse. Both are watching a figure that looks like a tearful Sir Keir Starmer leaving on the right of the frame. Larry says, "It just breaks my heart when they have to be rehomed."

A cartoon from this week’s Big Issue, drawn and submitted on the morning that Sir Keir Starmer announced he was stepping down as UK Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party. Quite a topical one for BI as there’s usually a week between submitting and the issue hitting the streets so the idea has to be still relevant up to two weeks later.

I remember an Inga Moore children’s book call ‘Six Dinner Sid’ about a cat that had 6 unknowing owners who fed the cat every day, hence the 6 dinners. Well, 10 Downing Street resident Larry the Cat has had 6 owners (about to be 7) in the past 15 years and he hasn’t had to move house!

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