No rain! A stint in the office before heading to London and the Commons. As always, a lot of correspondence to deal with and a statutory instrument to sit in on, which took an hour and a half. I started work on a small speech for tomorrow regarding dangerous dogs. Had further telecons regarding the future of the Portland SAR base. And tomorrow I will be delivering the petition to save our helicopter into the Chamber itself, a procedural thing that gives our good cause more publicity. I am also organising for six constituents who have collected more than 100,000 signatures to retain our aircraft to hand their petition in to No 10. Michael Gove has been saying lots of good things about his aims for state education, like longer days, tougher discipline and suggesting that state students should sit Common Entrance, the exam you take at 13 to get into the independent sector. I totally agree with the general thrust of his argument and the state system could learn lots of valuable lessons from the private sector. I am not saying it's all one way, as there are some outstanding state schools, but we all want the best for our children and for too long the state system has let down far too many of them. The debate on the Deregulation Bill ended at about 2100 after which I headed home.