Christmas: Downing Street lights accidentally switched on by MP

A Welsh MP unwittingly grew to change into on Downing Facet road’s Christmas tree lights after mistaking the swap for a doorbell.

Carolyn Harris, Labour MP for Swansea East, went to No 10 for a assembly final Wednesday, but when the door failed to originate, she pressed a gray button internal reach.

The door then opened on the same time because the Christmas tree lit up.

Ms Harris acknowledged she opinion it changed into once “so silly” that she had grew to change into on the lights an hour earlier than planned.

She educated BBC Radio Wales: “I obtained to the door and I’m looking out ahead to the door to originate and it doesn’t.

“I possess about ‘that’s routine, I opinion the door robotically opened’. So I looked on the wall and there is this grey box, so I possess about it be a doorbell, so I press the grey box – the front door does originate – however the Christmas tree lights came on on the same time.

“I get dangle of internal and I divulge ‘the tree appears magnificent’ and they divulge ‘sure, the prime minister is going to swap them on at 5 o’clock for the carol carrier’.

“So I acknowledged ‘I possess about you would possibly per chance per chance well get dangle of I’ve already done that’, so I needed to return originate air to flip the tree lights off, which changed into once relatively silly, especially when the prime minister did flip them on an hour later and they didn’t work the first time he tried it.”

Ms Harris then poked enjoyable on the incident on social media, when Boris Johnson’s failed strive to flip them on changed into once reported within the national press.

She acknowledged she “cried laughing” with fellow MPs afterwards, alongside with: “I develop now not know if the prime minister will be very joyful that somebody beat him to it after the week he’s had.”