Labour leader Keir Starmer is coming to meet the robots in Milton Keynes this morning

The pair will be meeting staff from Starship, the company behind the city's delivery robots.

It is believed they will also see the robots in action.

During lockdown, Starship expanded its delivery area in MK through local Co-op stores and restaurants operating home deliveries.

The environmentally-friendly system proved an invaluable and contactless way to get food safely to people who could not leave their homes.

During lockdown, Starship tripled its fleet of robots in MK to more than 100 and expanded into 26 new areas to meet the soaring demand. It is now the largest fleet of autonomous delivery robots in a single location in the world.

Starship also offered free deliveries to NHS workers across the city.

A Labour party spokesman said: "Labour Leader Keir Starmer and Chi Onwurah, Shadow Minister for Science, Research and Digital will visit Milton Keynes today (Thursday) to meet with staff from a technology company and discuss technological innovation in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Citizen will be publishing photos of the event later today.