Politicians and Animals

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Lindsay Hoyle with Patrick.

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Lindsay Hoyle with explosives detection dog Poppy.

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Jeremy Wright with a dog.

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Gordon Brown with a dog.

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Jonathan Ashworth with Nelly.

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Ben Spencer with a dog.

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#ReindeerAtPollingStations

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Boris Johnson with Dilyn.

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Dominic Grieve with a cow.

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Karl Turner and a boy with a ferret (who bit him).

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Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat, returns to work after six months off for stress

Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat, has returned to work after six months recovering from stress caused by civil servants constantly picking him up and overfeeding him.

After being away from the Foreign Office for 6 months, Palmerston has returned, with a warning from Sir Simon McDonald to civil servants telling them not to feed him and not to pick him up if he doesn’t want the attention.

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Andrea Leadom with a dog.

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Anne Milton with a pony.

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Pete Wishart with dogs.

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Anne Milton with dogs.

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Lindsay Hoyle with Gordon the Rottweiler, Maggie the Tortoise, Betty the Patterdale Terrier, Boris the Parrot, Patrick the cat and... another cat.

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The cat underneath the chair is named Dennis.

All of these animals are named for politicians:

Gordon Brown

Margaret Thatcher

Betty Boothroyd

Boris Johnson

Patrick Cormack

Dennis Skinner

Sir Lindsay intends to move all of these animals down to Speaker's House in Parliament, where he will live, should he get reelected as Speaker when Parliament returns.

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Lindsay Hoyle with Gordon the Rottweiler, Maggie the Tortoise, Betty the Patterdale Terrier, Boris the Parrot, Patrick the cat and... another cat.

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The new Speaker of the House of Commons.