First thing over to City Hall for private briefing on Operation Minstead. It was basically the same presentation that I had had some while back – and still they haven’t got their man. They are still painstakingly sifting through lists and lists of possible persons of interest. And all the DNA trawl in the world hasn’t yielded up the perpetrator. Will it ever? Leave in a rush as I have my session with Ming at 11.15am.

I go in and up to the office where Ming is ensconced with Archie Kirkwood – his political adviser. We have a very good discussion I thought. There is a little awkwardness around our different sides in the leadership election, but that’s natural. More interestingly I get a chance to discuss where I might want to be in the future and also, more importantly, to bung my two pennies in on the organisation and campaigning aspects of the Liberal Democrats. Hopefully they will let me keep policing!

At lunchtime, I go to a meeting where three women (partners or parents) of someone who has died have had the most appalling and tragic experience and the most horrific mistreatment by a coroner. It seems to me from the evidence presented that there is plenty of reason for a public enquiry into the cases that appear to have been so poorly, or negligently handled. Watch this space.

And out on the campaign trail knocking on doors for a good session – which restored my soul. It was so good, and happy and people were just nice, nice, nice.

PS If you watched Question Time tonight you will have noticed that Nick Clegg who I was bumped in favour of, was not there. On Tuesday or Wednesday this week – QT had decided they wanted to change back to me. Unfortunately, by this time I had made another arrangement. So they bumped Nick in favour of Jean Lambert, Green MEP. C’est la vie!