00:01Prime Ministers come and Prime Ministers go, but there's one resident of Downing Street who endures, Larry the cat.
00:08Larry's is a real rags-to-riches story. He was a stray cat who was adopted in 2011 by Downing
00:13Street from the Battersea Dogs and Cats home to deal with a rodent infestation.
00:17His record on that score is a bit mixed. There have been suggestions he hasn't actually caught that many mice
00:22in his 15 years in the post.
00:24But he has become a much beloved fixture of Downing Street.
00:28The journalists who come to the street every day regularly give him treats and wait for him to appear from
00:33behind the black door
00:34just so they can get shots of him posing or prowling or generally going about his daily business.
00:43I think it's just that air of anticipation because we just don't know exactly what will happen, but we do
00:49know that he's great at photobombing.
00:51So if there's a foreign leader that's about to visit, then we know he'll just come out at the exact
00:56moment that meet and greet is about to happen.
00:59I think it's a very reassuring thing for a lot of people that he's around and he's still as sprightly
01:04as ever despite being 19.
01:06He's outlasted a lot of people because he's just a cat. He's very good at what he does.
01:11Lounging around and basically showing people that he's not very nonchalant.
01:15He's been very young.
01:15Lounging around and again, thank you very much for joining us.
01:15You're welcome.
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