Meet with Tim O’Toole (MD London Underground/TfL) to see if there are any areas of difficulty with the private companies running the tube that I should be questioning them on when they come in front of me in March. He reveals absolutely nothing.

I stay on for private meeting about the Highgate Tube station fence which we are all trying to sort out so that it delivers a reasonable view to both Priory Gardens and Archway Road AND so that the noise is not reflected back at Archway Road residents AND at the same time noise is reduced for all the others. Quite a challenge! Reasonable progress I hope.

Then drinks with the new Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair. Very interesting discussions with various bods who were there – all of whom seem to think Hornsey & Wood Green will fall to the LibDems. Obviously these discussions go on in high places…!