The Lincolnshire W.I. came to the House of Commons today and I spoke to them in Committee Room 11.

Then something happened which again I had never seen before in this place. At the end of the meeting they asked if they could sing “Jerusalem” and they did so beautifully. Forty lusty voices singing these immortal lines in this grand committee room were a lot more inspiring than my last visit there on Monday when I had been chairing a meeting of the European Scrutiny Committee!