Larry the cat, head mouser at the British Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. File photoMOSCOW , Oct 24 British Prime Minister's Chief Mouser Expects Caviar And Lobster On His Menu As Rishi Sunak Is Elected New Leader Of A Hundred Million Pound Country.»Rishi Sunak To Be Prime Minister. His Family lots of money, so caviar and lobsters are on the menu from tomorrow,» the cat's tweet read. Sunak became the only candidate to run for the post after his opponent House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt announced she was withdrawing her candidacy. In this regard, he became the new leader of the ruling Conservative Party and the head of the British government. The British media have repeatedly noted that Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy is «richer than the queen herself», because her father is the Indian billionaire Narayana Murthy, who founded the large IT company Infosys in India. Because of the state of his wife in the amount of more than 700 million pounds, the then head of the Ministry of Finance was repeatedly subjected to a flurry of criticism. So, in April of this year, Akshata was accused of tax evasion on foreign income. Cat Larry, taken from a shelter, has been serving at the residence of the British Prime Minister since 2011. Cats have been living in the residences of British rulers since the 15th century. Since 1929 they have had official status and a salary of 100 pounds a year. The most famous of them in the 20th century was the cat Humphrey, who acted as a mouser under Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair. Cat Humphrey passed away in 2008, he was about 18 years old.
