Someone touched Parliament's special mace, and British Twitter is losing it

Forget surgery on a grape. After Prime Minister Theresa May postponed the parliamentary vote on her contentious Brexit deal, Labour representative Lloyd Russell-Moyle defiantly marched to the center of the room, picked up the mace — which looks like a large, fancy club — and attempted to leave with it. 
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Fellow members of Parliament were horrified by the statement. The mace is a "symbol of royal au