Jess Phillips recreates Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights dance
The safeguarding minister joined a crowd of hundreds at The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in Birmingham on Saturday.
The global event sees participants recreate the music video for Bush's 1978 song while wearing red dresses.
Photographs showed the MP for Birmingham Yardley performing a series of poses as she followed along with the routine.
Events have previously taken place in locations such as Sydney, Copenhagen, Berlin and Folkestone. They typically take place in late July to coincide with Kate Bush's birthday on July 30.
Wuthering Heights was Bush's debut single with lyrics inspired by the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë.
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