Tuesday. The conference agenda for the day includes speeches by Graham Watson MEP, Vincent Cable and Sarah Teather - new to parliament as a result of the Brent East by-election last year, but already a rising star and even being whispered about by some as a possible future leader.

There's a motion to replace the failed Standards Board for England; a debate on the gap in funding for 16-19 education between schools and colleges; and a motion on post offices and the Royal Mail, which conference decides to send back for more work to be done on it.

There's a meeting before dinner being organised by the credit card industry. Are credit card companies lending responsibly? their invitation asks. I go along, and make the point to the (very complacent looking) panel that particularly, though not only, with regard to young people (to whom large amounts of unaffordable debt is promoted very heavily indeed), no, they aren't.