I have just finished an interview on the Jeremy Vine show. I was defending Bedfordshire as today we came bottom in the Country Life league of counties.

There was an adjudicator in the studio and I was being given the chance to have Bedfordshire voted up by the programme.

I lost. Luton and our proximity to London being the reason.

Alistair Burt  MP agrees with me, he is stood looking over my shoulder as I type this! He has beautiful villages in his patch - Odell, Sharnbrook and Ickwell, to name just a few.

He says "who are Country Life anyway"?

So not fair!