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MP in tractor crash as publicity stunt backfires 
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Monday, July 16 2007 11:42:51 by Editor
A Bedfordshire MP was caught in an embarrassing tractor crash last week as a photo-op went badly wrong.
Nadine Dorries, Tory member for Mid Beds, veered off the circuit while driving a mini Massey Ferguson in a celebrity tractor race, also featuring the Cheeky Girls, at London's Covent Garden.
A BBC cameraman recording the event was slightly injured in the ensuing crash.
Ms Dorries, while proclaiming herself "almost too embarrassed to speak", nevertheless commented that "I have never driven a tractor in my life."
She added that organisers "did not show me until afterwards that there was a brake pedal. Now I know where the brake pedal is I wouldn't mind having another go."
The Red Tractor food assurance scheme had organised the race to promote Red Tractor Week, which also featured the launch of a cookbook and discount offers on farm produce at supermarkets.
The scheme is a quality control system which aims to ensure that UK farm products reach acceptably high standards.
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