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Palmerston, the Foreign Office's resident cat, has retired from mousing duties to "spend more time relaxing away from the limelight".

In a "letter", he says he has moved away from Whitehall and is now climbing trees rather than "overhearing all the foreign dignitaries' conversations".

The black-and-white rescue cat, who has more than 105,000 Twitter followers, arrived from Battersea in 2016.

He has been known to clash with Larry, Number 10's main mouse-catcher.

Their decidedly undiplomatic disputes - which have included several hissy fits and a stand-off in full view of the press in Downing Street - are not thought to have hastened his departure.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53692188