Smell a rat?

I had a bit of a double take when watching the news the other evening.

BBC political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue was doing his thing outside Number 10 when I thought I saw a rat running across the threshold of the PM’s house.

Hitting rewind on the digibox, it was hard to make out on our crappy little set (well, we don’t have HD as Mrs Horace refuses to fork out for it).

I duly shook the Web and found confirmation on Newslite.

Ever-faithful servant YouTube provides corroborating evidence below. The eagle-eyed among you will see the rodent scurrying across the steps of Number 10 after about nine seconds.

One can only speculate whether this is due to fortnightly rubbish collections in Downing Street. Won’t be long before Pickles wades in…