Bomb disposal robot deployed to parliament to tackle box of Christmas cards with MP's name on it

A curate has made the Met Police's naughty database aft a container of unsent Christmas cards triggered a lockdown astir parliament.

Commuters to Westminster arriving for 1 of their last days of enactment earlier Christmas recovered themselves incapable to get crossed Parliament Square and astir the parliamentary property arsenic constabulary taped it disconnected owed to a "suspicious package".

Officers swung into action, closing down Parliament Square and Millbank earlier 7.30am, and the weaponry squad was deployed to investigate.

A abbreviated portion later, spotted heading into the breach to analyse this package, was a weaponry disposal robot.

Using the robot, the point was cautiously inspected by specializer officers monitoring the provender - and it turned retired to beryllium a container of unsent Christmas card.

Careful inspection by an intrepid Sky News writer recovered that the cards were successful a container bearing the sanction of nary different than communities curate Miatta Fahnbulleh MP.

Many of the cards were successful a container marked "most urgent" - which makes sense, arsenic parliament rises for recess astatine the extremity of the day.

We reckon that parliamentary information and the Met Police volition beryllium shooting to the apical of her Christmas paper list.

Sky News understands that Ms Fahnbulleh was expecting a transportation of cards, but they ne'er arrived.