Back to the Commons for what looks like a busy week. Today was spent catching up on constituency matters and correspondence. I also spent some time drafting a speech for tomorrow's Budget debate. I estimated I'd only have about five minutes to speak, so worked on that basis. When there is so much to say, it's a challenge deciding what to concentrate on. My friend and former colleague Lee Anderson defected to Reform UK, saying he could not be a member of a party that “stifles free speech”. I was interested to note that he said he, "wanted his country back." That was the catchphrase I introduced into my campaign when first appointed as the Conservative candidate for S Dorset in 2006. The phrase was then hijacked by UKIP during the Brexit debate and used extensively by Nigel Farage, who freely admitted he'd nicked it from me. In other news, Constance Marten planned to pay someone to smuggle her baby abroad, a court heard. This is a most distressing and tragic case. The Princess of Wales apologised "for any confusion" after she said she edited a Mother's Day photograph of her and her children. Abroad, bird flu was confirmed in 10 penguins on South Georgia, one of the world's great wildlife havens. And any travel to Haiti was warned against, amid intense fighting and spiralling gang violence in the Caribbean nation. I once filmed in Haiti for BBC South Today, a real eye-opening experience.