Meeting with Victor Olisa, who is seconded from the City police to the Home Office working group on Stop & Search. We are looking for a way to tackle some of the issues that might stop recruitment of ethnic minorities into the police. Looking to hold an ‘event’ at some point in the relatively near future with young people in London.

Then rush home to host a fund-raising dinner. The guest this time is the party’s Campaigns Director, Paul Rainger. His boss (the party’s chief executive) did a similar event a few years ago, so there’s some good-natured rivalry about their relative fundraising performance.

I don’t cook – a local member thankfully does – and boy can she cook. It is a lovely evening. And I think that there are not that many occasions when members of a political party can have a high-level political conversation with a top party insider like Chris or Paul (and previously Lembit Opik and Vince Cable). Anyway – it seemed to go very well.