Loony moggie should have been installed in number 10

Growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, I fondly recall the candidates fielded in general elections by the Monster Raving Loony Party.

Much of the party’s publicity centred around founder member Screaming Lord Sutch, and since his death in 1999 elections have never been quite the same. The Loonies are still going and fielded 24 candidates in the UK last Thursday.

Since 1999 they have been led by Alan ‘Howling Laud’ Hope. His cat, Catmandu, was the party’s joint-leader until his death in a road crash three years later. How brilliant it would have been, how quintessentially British, to have seen Catmandu installed as the No 10 mouser, rather than Larry.