Tim Barnes is the Prospective MP for the Cities of London & Westminster. We caught up with him for Episode 14 of "Diary of a Candidate". Tim explains,

"So I'm just walking home, through Chinatown, after the last hustings, I think, of this campaign.

"We've got a week to go today until the election takes place, and it's just hard work, doorknocking, campaigning from here on in. It was an entertaining one to finish with.

"We had several of the independent candidates, turning up this time, as well as the three major party candidates and the second appearance of Reform, and it was a hustings dedicated to the subjects of homelessness and rough sleeping being organised by The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

"And there was a brief moment at the beginning where things were a little bit difficult because one of the rough sleepers who was present, pointed out this was actually when many of the people were collecting the food that was being distributed by Connection upstairs.

"So we had a brief pause in proceedings whilst we went upstairs to see if anyone wanted to come down, before we got into the heart of the debate, the discussion.

"And it was really good. We covered not only homelessness and, rough sleeping issues, but some of the issues around asylum seekers, political engagement, electoral reform and a whole lot of things that contribute to people's genuine and general understanding of what is good and bad in a political system.

I"'d like to take this moment to say thank you to all of the political candidates that are running this election that have taken part in hustings.

Everyone has been conducted in a polite, generally respectful manner without anybody having to resort to any sort of insults and, indeed, even in barracking and talking over each other."

I hope that everybody who's turned up to any of the events we've had has managed to find something useful and managed to leave slightly better informed about what we do because there's nothing that feels as positive and as direct about our democratic system as standing in front of people, and answering their questions in a public forum where we can be held to account.

"If I'm elected, I will continue to do that, meet people in public in order to have those conversations in a way in which they will see that I'm serious.

"That's what it means to be a strong local candidate. Please vote for me on Thursday 4 July.