An empty seat.

To good friends at their beautiful house in north Essex for coffee. Their garden looks over fields giving a view that David Hockney would love to draw. In fact Ted is a keen artist and has produced a delightful painting of this view.

And then, driving home the news of David Amess being attacked started to come through. Such a shocking and tragic and senseless and unnecessary act. I met him once and he struck me as a very decent man. That's what all his colleagues on all sides are saying.