I am to be adopted – as LibDem candidate for Hornsey & Wood Green in the back room (huge) of the Three Compasses pub – where our HQ is upstairs.

Lord Bill Rodgers (member of the SDP Gang of Four and ex-LibDem Leader in the Lords), Lord Tim Garden (military expert) and Ed Davey, MP are all there to attract a good crowd, tell people how wonderful I am and how hard they need to work for the campaign.

Fantastic turn out – made Neil (my agent) come and take a photo from the front looking back at the audience – ‘cos political parties are always saying it was ‘packed room’ but it really was. So I thought we should have the photographic evidence to back it up!

It was a fantastic night. It is only seven years since we got our first councillor and we’re now poised to have a Lib Dem MP.

It just reminded me of a piece I wrote for a LibDem publication years ago on ‘Why I am a Liberal Democrat’ or something like that. I chose to write about the ‘Power of One’ – that however impossible things seem – that doesn’t have to be the case and that change can be brought about with enough commitment and effort. And as ‘ones’ come together in common cause – mountains do move.