I bring you Larry, the No 10 cat, as evidence that David Cameron was braced for election defeat. Towards the end of the campaign, miaowed a snout, anxious Downing Street retainers telephoned Ed Miliband’s consigliere, Stewart Wood, to seek assurance that the Labour leader would retain the pussy. Fretting staff feared that Miliband was the type to suffer allergies. Wood informed Downing Street that the moggie could stay. We’ll never know if Larry would have kept Ed.
Amid the SNP fun and games over benches and oaths, an informant whispered that Nicola “Queen of Scots” Sturgeon had refused to bow her head when the Queen passed in Westminster Abbey at the VE Day commemoration.
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