MPs Spent The Morning Running Around A Park Flipping Pancakes

    Every Shrove Tuesday, MPs, lords, and journalists get together and race around Westminster, flipping pancakes for charity. This year, the journalists won.

    Today is maybe the most important day of the political calendar.

    No, not Gove Tuesday.

    It's Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day. So obviously MPs spent some time running through a park in Westminster while flipping pancakes.

    What's going on? Well, MPs, lords, and political journalists come together and raise money for brain charity Rehab by racing around a park in Westminster.

    And they have to flip pancakes as they're running.

    This year there were six politicians involved: Sir David Amess, Nick de Bois, David Burrowes, Stephen Pound, Lord Resendale, and Andrew Rosindell.

    Awkwardly, there was a near-accident seconds after the race began as an MP ran into a woman standing on the sidelines.

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    It turns out that it's not so easy. Here's Andrew Rosindell, the Conservative MP for Romford, attempting to flip his pancake.

    Meanwhile, David Burrowes, the Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate, managed to lose most of his pancake while running around the course.

    And there was a fair bit of pushing and shoving between the two teams.

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    Eventually it was all over.

    And the team of journalists won.

    But the MPs weren't impressed. Sir David Amess, the Conservative MP for Southend West, brushed the loss aside. He said: "I don't like pancakes and I'm happy to lose to a bunch of tossers."

    Steven Pound, the Labour MP for Ealing North, said the MPs lost because there was only one Labour MP on the team and four Tory MPs.

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    "Labour loses today but we win in May," Pound told BuzzFeed News. "We were hoping to chuck them [the journalists] into the river.

    "But if you look at the team, there were four Tories in my team and I was the only Labour one ... Had it been a full Labour team we would have certainly triumphed."

    But Rosindell argued instead that the fact that more Tory MPs were involved "shows there's more Conservatives out working hard for a good cause".