The Lib Dem Group (bar one) stuck on train on way to People’s Question Time – where the Mayor and the chorus line – whoops sorry, London Assembly members – face public questions. The points are broken just outside of Lewisham so the train can’t stop at the station (it stopped for quite a while outside the station before they decide this). Eventually we straggle on to the platform around 7.30pm. The audience had enjoyed the Chair of Transport being stuck on a train.

Ken enjoyed himself less than usual. I don’t know if the weight of opprobrium over his refusal to regret his holocaust remarks was getting him down – but he wasn’t as witty or charismatic as usual. I had a run-in with him over his raising of bus fares after students from Goldsmith’s College (where the question time was held) had a go at him about rising fares.

It was a better session than we have had before – well chaired by local GLA member Len Duval. Len brought everyone in and there was much more of a debate than usual. That may be why Ken enjoyed it less – it wasn’t all him all evening.