The Home Affairs Select Committee have sent out an early contender for best political Christmas card of the season. Chairman Keith Vaz stars as a lightsaber-wielding jedi, opposite Theresa May in full Princess Leia garb. Mike Penning as Chewbacca steals the show.

Nigel Evans’ offering was rather more serious, featuring the Tory MP uncharacteristically taking a drink on the terrace.

Scandal-hit Tory peer Emma Pidding meanwhile sent a photo of two large bison. Two mardy cows…