Let the cat out of the bag, Tory MP tells Tony Blair

LONDON, NOV 24: A Conservative Party MP who is a known animal lover has expressed serious concern about the fate of Humphrey, the resident ...

LONDON, NOV 24: A Conservative Party MP who is a known animal lover has expressed serious concern about the fate of Humphrey, the resident cat at 10 Downing Street until he disappeared two weeks ago.

Alan Clark said in Monday’s Daily Telegraph that he suspected that reports that Humphrey was in bad health had been invented to conceal the fact that Cherie Blair, the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, was allergic to cats.He called on the Government to prove that Humphrey was alive.

“Humphrey is now a missing person,” said Clark who said he feared Cherie might have had the cat put down.

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Humphrey, a stray, moved into 10 Downing Street in October 1989. The cat is officially said to have been ill with a kidney complaint for the past four years and to have been given to a woman who used to work at Downing Street.

A Government spokesman told the paper that Humphrey was alive but very sick but he refused to reveal the animal’s whereabouts so that he would not be “harassed”.

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