We had our cornerstone meeting at the Party Conference. The Bishop of Birmingham gave a really good talk, but two things about it stuck in my mind. I asked what were his priorities.

“To double the number of Christians,” he said. So right and so simple. He also talked about his Anglican school in the middle of Birmingham. It is 99 percent Muslim, yet the headteacher is Christian and openly displays Christian stories in the foyer at Easter, to which no one objects. It just shows that no religion needs to be apologetic about what it believes in and people aren’t offended.