
Frustrated: Labour MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy, speaks in Trafalgar Square in January 2017
(Picture: Getty Images)Welcome to Wednesday’s Londoner’s Diary. Today, Stella Creasy says she’s too ill to work but has no choice because of Parliament’s arcane rules. Later we find out whether Rachel Johnson will follow her one-time antagonist Brian May out of London because of flooding. Writer Elif Shafak discloses her secret and surprising musical passion (hint: it includes the word “pagan”). And in SW1A, we wonder if there’s something in the air in Scotland as news arrives of a pair of SNP engagements.