{"id":276177,"date":"2026-06-22T13:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=276177"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:51:44","slug":"british-cabinet-offices-chief-mouser-larry-says-he-may-stop-trying-to-remember-pms-names-as-he-prepares-for-his-7th-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/276177\/","title":{"rendered":"British Cabinet Office\u2019s chief mouser Larry says he may \u2018stop trying\u2019 to remember PMs\u2019 names as he prepares for his 7th leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Larry the Cat, living at the UK prime minister&rsquo;s residence, may stop remembering the names of government leaders due to their frequent changes, according to a post on the X account of the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If rumours are to be believed I&rsquo;ll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I&rsquo;m going to stop making the effort to learn their names,&rdquo; Larry the Cat wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The cat was appointed as the UK prime minister&rsquo;s residence&rsquo;s official &ldquo;chief mouser.&rdquo; He regularly makes sarcastic &ldquo;posts&rdquo; on social media about British politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, it became known that British PM Keir Starmer had resigned.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry the Cat, living at the UK prime minister&rsquo;s residence, may stop remembering the names of government leaders due to their frequent changes, according to a post on the X account of the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. &ldquo;If rumours are to be believed I&rsquo;ll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":276123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276178,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276177\/revisions\/276178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}