Hotfoot over to a hall in Wembley for the rally at the end of the London Region Liberal Democrat Conference.

Wembley is not easy to access at the moment with the closure of all of its stations during the construction work for the new stadium. I gave up and took my car – only to find that although easy to get to – I might never leave as there were notices of road closures all over the place for the Diwali procession.

Anyway, the rally was titled: ‘London’s Winning Women’ – with myself, Dee Doocey (our new GLA member), Baroness Sally Hamwee from the London Assembly and Sarah Ludford MEP.

I talked about Bob Geldof’s recent pronouncements about how much he enjoyed coming home to his partner doing something very feminine in the kitchen – presumably to do with food or curtains. I can’t cook and have bare windows – maybe that’s why I’m divorced.

Now Bob’s recent comments about a women’s place being in the kitchen are usually the sort of thing that makes me want to throw up. However – if you really think about it, what Sir Bob is really, really saying is – women make the world a better place (wherever they are). I couldn’t agree more.

Many of the problems I see are because the people taking decisions at the highest levels in both politics and business are still generally men – which goes a long way to explaining why the world is the way it is. But before I launch into full scale debate mode – suffice to say – we rallied our supporters and fully expect to get at least five women elected in London to Parliament when Blair calls the election. And despite the flurry of speculation in the papers that it might be February – I still think May is the safer bet.