Spent day ping-ponging between my home and Millbank to do TV interviews covering the imminent debate on ID cards. Buggered up my Sunday – but well worth it as absolutely passionately against this misguided and authoritarian legislation.

Meanwhile, a bit of whimsy … One of the big problems behind knife crime and the culture that goes with it is that having a knife is seen as cool. How to break this culture? Why not issue a knife to every MP … that would be the death knell of coolness for the poor knife!