Haringey Council’s Annual General Meeting and Mayor Making. The chamber is full of dignitaries and guests. A dilemma had arisen about whether I would sit as an MP or sit with the other councillors (I’m carrying on as a councillor until my current term of office comes to an end). I had cleared up the dilemma by choosing to sit with the councillors. I was there primarily in that role – to vote.

Now this council meeting unlike others is meant to be mainly ceremonial. However – the form from previous years has been Labour saying in advance, “it’s ceremonial, let’s not have the political stuff at this meeting” and then at the meeting promptly ignoring agreements about how to handle the meeting and going for all sorts of political stuff.

This year – shock horror – everyone behaved!

The new Mayor was sworn in. Neil (Lib Dem leader) and Charles (Labour council leader) said a few nice things about myself and David Lammy. And they we all went off for the dinner / dance hosted by the council at the Ally Pally.