Kirsty Williams faces her ITV leaders’ debate on ITV Cymru tomorrow at 8pm.

Away from the formalities of the campaign, she has been cooking with ITV Cymru’s political editor Adrian Masters. He’s been doing this with all the party leaders. I do hope he asked the men what their families thought of them being party leaders as well.

He helped Kirsty make Sloppy Joes.

Kirsty had a great story about being brought back to earth after meeting President Obama. If it had been me, I’d have wanted to talk about nothing else for about a year. Her husband, Richard, had something else he needed to ask, though:

Meeting Barack Obama was particularly exciting, but I was very quickly brought back down to earth. I rang home and spoke to my husband and said ‘I got to speak to Barack Obama’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, great. I can’t find the kids’ swimming costumes.

One thing I’d never really considered is that she lives on a farm. Lambing and elections coincide, so she may well have to help with delivering lambs in the middle of the night as well as campaigning.

I also laughed when she took over from Masters, who didn’t seem to have any idea what a sweet potato wedge was.

Her idea of the best political day is helping her constituents with their problems, “skewering” the First Minister at FMQs and then making progress on her “more nurses” Private Members’ Bill.

You can watch the whole thing here as long as you are able to enter a Welsh postcode when asked.

Back on the campaign trail, Kirsty has Tim Farron with her today and the focus is how the Welsh Lib Dems would help small businesses. Kirsty said:

The Welsh Liberal Democrats’ vision of an Opportunity Economy will tear down the barriers that stop Welsh businesses from fulfilling their ambitions.

We’ll heavily invest in digital infrastructure to improve mobile phone and broadband coverage. We’ll help businesses grow through our Small Business Administration, bringing independent advice and finance together so businesses have the best chance of success. And we will more than double the number of apprenticeships, as we believe in investing in our future workforce.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are the party of fresh ideas to create an economy that works for you.

Tim added:

Wales should be known as the place where small and medium sized businesses thrive, it just needs a Government with the ambition to make it happen. Kirsty Williams and her team have the ideas to unleash Wales’ business potential. The Welsh Liberal Democrats are the natural home of the entrepreneur, the shopkeeper and the SME business owner.

Labour continues to treat ‘aspiration’ as a dirty word. Carwyn Jones and Jeremy Corbyn may not trust in the power of business to do good, but we do. We know that business can be a powerful engine for social mobility.

The Tories’ interest in business ends at supporting hedge fund managers and cutting taxes for their richest donors. Supporting only those at the very top simply makes it harder for everyone else.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are unique as they can speak for all of Wales. No other party can deliver economic growth for the whole of Wales. Whether it’s North, South, Mid, rural or urban – the Welsh Liberal Democrats will create an economy that works for you.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings