Away from Ukraine, it was all kicking off elsewhere in London yesterday. As the England rugby team was labouring to a 23-19 win against their Welsh rivals over at Twickenham, a similar fixture was taking place a few miles down the road at the nearby Richmond RFC ground. For, as per Six Nations tradition, a Westminster parliamentary team ran out to to take on their counterparts from the Senedd who had made the trip from Cardiff Bay.
The London team was compromised of staff and members from both chambers in Parliament and was coming off the back of a successful 12-5 defeat of the Holyrood team in Edinburgh. But the Welsh team are made of sterner suff, having won nine consecutive fixtures in a row. And yesterday they hit the magic ten as they won comfortably 20-10 against a side which appropriately contained Rugby MP Mark Pawsey, Angela Rayner’s ally Sam Tarry MP and the Plaid nationalist Ben Lake MP.
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