Jack Russell dog has been caught in the cross-fire as members of sundry Downing Street factions, past and present, have been leaking mischievous reports about each other – and him.
The principal charge against the hapless rescue dog is of chronic incontinence in high places. But anyone who has ever owned a dog will surely be only too familiar with this phenomenon, if not in such splendid surroundings as the Prime Minister’s Elizabethan country residence, Chequers; nor in the presence of Cabinet ministers and other political bigwigs.I was brought up in a houseful of dogs, and the blotting paper and soda water were always close at hand to deal with the regular accidents that occurred.
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