LONDON -- British parliamentarians are ????? ???????? ? ???? ??????well-known for fighting like cats and dogs.
But lately there's been some pretty serious cat-on-cat violence at 10 Downing Street, and we're not talking about intra-party disagreements between MPs.
SEE ALSO: Forget about the UK election, Larry vs. Bailey is the real battle for Downing StreetPhotojournalist Steve Back is a freelance press photographer dedicated to documenting the comings and goings at the residence of the prime minister, largely via his Twitter account, @PoliticalPictures.
Recently, Back has brought attention to the ongoing battle between Larry the Cat, chief mouser at 10 Downing Street, and Palmerston, Larry's counterpart at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) at Whitehall, London.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Larry came to 10 Downing Street during David Cameron's tenure to take care of rodents/as a public relations gimmick, but following the political turmoil of the past few weeks, his position had been precarious. Now, Larry appears to be facing a new threat as Palmerston seems keen to usurp 10 Downing Street territory.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Back has risked personal injury to document the encounters between these two fiercely territorial felines, sometimes even intervening to end the fighting. Back has expressed outrage over how little is being done to alleviate the situation.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Treats and armed officers have both been called in intermittently as a temporary ceasefire, but no adequate long-standing solutions have been proposed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
The fighting became so intense, Larry had to pay a visit to the vet, allowing the ambitious Palmerston to take temporary control over 10 Downing Street.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Larry's return and the recent announcement that the Treasury had brought in its own chief mouser have added even greater ambiguity to the turf wars. No news yet on whether Gladstone the cat will choose to remain neutral, form an alliance or lead his own bold campaign to claim the street.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Back's efforts to draw attention to the fighting have not gone without notice; Battersea Dogs & Cats, the animal shelter from where Larry, Palmerston, and Gladstone have all been adopted, has apparently been in contact to help neutralise this potential tragedy.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
At this point, we can only hope that somehow an im-purr-fect peace will be reached.
This cosplayer might be the most convincing Taylor Swift lookalike yetThis BBC weather presenter just busted out a total mic drop of a punUber's refusal to treat its drivers as employees now receiving backlash in IndiaFace it, Super Liking on Tinder is for losersJustin Bieber returns to Instagram and blesses us with 'SOO MUCH CONTENT'If you really don't want to get pregnant, don't use this fancy app. Get an IUD.Teen sneaks into band's VIP section by editing their Wikipedia pageTrump decries 'tremendous increase' in U.S. autism cases. But it's not so simple.NASA spots dry ice and gullies in a Martian craterThe president is literally tweeting what he sees on TV Trump's racist Baltimore tweets part of a pattern, CNN anchor explains The Times front page just *happened* to pair Trump story with a cockatoo photo Adorable baby flamingo learning to stand on one leg deserves all our support Instagram can't stop flood of grisly photos from Bianca Devins' murder People are cheering Natalie Imbruglia's Twitter pregnancy announcement Another Roomba ran over dog poop and then proceeded to 'clean' the house Brexit is destroying sex lives The best alien memes for when you're trying to break into Area 51 Another video on YouTube intended for kids is going viral for all the wrong reasons People are mocking the #IceCreamChallenge with hilarious videos
0.1757s , 9926.9453125 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【????? ???????? ? ???? ??????】Photojournalist documents fearsome cat fights on Downing Street,Global Hot Topic Analysis