''Rocco, put your tail down": Cat interrupts virtual UK parliamentary meeting

A member of the UK parliament’s cat interrupted a live virtual committee meeting on Tuesday, prompting laughter from others on the call.

John Nicolson was speaking during a meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, asking about the use of subtitles on children’s TV, when his contribution became itself worthy of children’s TV as a fluffy ginger tail popped up before him.

“I apologize for my cat’s tail,” Nicolson says in the video, before making a memorable appeal to the cat: “Rocco, put your tail down.”