Had a good day on the trail today. Spent much of it in Old Malden canvassing and then on to a hustings meeting with Churches Together in New Malden. The Lib Dem candidate did not turn up as he preferred the comfort of Channel 4 news rather meeting the electors in New Malden. He sent Baroness Hamwee as a sub.

The meeting went well and not surprisingly there was a good degree of concentration on ethical questions around euthanasia and abortion as well as interest in world debt, poverty and aid.

Have to say that Nick Parrot, the Labour candidate, is turning out to be refreshingly “Old Labour” in both his outlook on life and thinking.
The Baroness managed to walk into a few brick walls when she decided to laud the Lib Dem policy of not charging for personal care, despite the fact that in Kingston the Lib Dems, supported by their candidate, have raised personal care charges by 300% and introduced means testing.