It’s the ‘purr-fect’ job. Britain’s top feline diplomat comes out of retirement

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top feline diplomat has come out of retirement for a new job. Palmerston, former Chief Mouser to the Foreign Office, is now the U.K. chief four-legged representative in Bermuda. The news was posted on Wednesday on Palmerston’s official DiploMog account on X. It comes more than four years after it was announced he was retiring from public life to a “quieter and easier” life in the countryside. Palmerston was adopted by Foreign Office diplomat Andrew Murdoch, who has now been appointed governor of the British territory of Bermuda. The Foreign Office said Palmerston “will attend only the meetings he deems important, offering advice when necessary and indulging in well-earned naps.”