Another extraordinary day. It was day two of the EU Withdrawal Bill which I had spoken in yesterday evening - late! The speech is on the website. A busy morning first and then to the Chamber for PMQs. The Prime Minister was in fine form and is gaining in confidence at the Despatch Box, which must be the single-most terrifying place to be in the UK. She sank Mr Corbyn, whose attacks were again wide of the mark, and then, not satisfied with that, put a torpedo straight through the Lib Dem leader who was called only to be virtually shouted down. I'm afraid he must be one of the least respected politicians in the House, along with his colleague Mr Clegg. They just have no moral compass, to borrow Mr Brown's phrase, and continually flip and flop on almost every issue, including this EU referendum, where they now want a second one. This from a Party that had originally promised us a referendum. You really could not make it up. Anyway, before PMQs, I had headed to CR 6 for a televised session with our European Scrutiny Committee which today was taking oral evidence from Sir Ivan Rogers, our man in Brussels until he resigned rather suddenly. A pro-European, I was interested by his replies to our questions. He was clearly a very intelligent albeit rather nervous man. His hands shook and he kept changing his glasses. We were all intrigued to hear his evidence as he's worked in and around Europe for many years. In 2012 he returned to the civil service as the then PM's adviser for Europe and global issues and the Head of the European and Global Issues Secretariat. Yes, they love names in the EU and the longer the better; confuses the unwashed! The more he went on, the more I was even more grateful than I am already that we are leaving the EU, and I said so. To be fair to Sir Ivan, he was not against leaving the EU, or certainly that was the impression, but said negotiations were going to be difficult and at times fraught. The session ended and it was straight off to PMQs. The afternoon was taken up writing my weekly column, talking to colleagues about the future organisation of local government in Dorset and dealing with a lot of correspondence. The great vote was at 1900 and the decision to trigger Article 50 was backed by nearly 500 MPs. I never thought I'd see the day. Exciting times lie ahead for our great country.