4.30pm ToryDiary update: No more 'hello sunshine', Mr Cameron
3pm ToryDiary update: How did the shadow cabinet perform in Bournemouth?
BLOGS
This weeks Law of the Political Process on YourPlatform: Choose your enemies as carefully as you choose your friends
CF Diary: Edward Keene reflects on how to keep CF members active post-university
ToryDiary: Perspectives on the veil debate
The excellent blog of the intellectual New Culture Forum is this week's Blog of the Week.
MOTORWAY EXPRESS LANES
"The Tories would speed up traffic flow with a toll on the users of motorway express lanes. Drivers would have to pay a toll to use the extra lanes being built on motorways under a Conservative plan to enable faster journeys for those able to afford it." - Times
UKIP BID FOR TORY VOTES
"The leader of the Euro-sceptic UK Independence Party is due to launch a fresh bid to win over Tory voters disillusioned by David Cameron's move to the centre ground. Nigel Farage - who was elected leader last month - will tell delegates at their annual conference in Telford that UKIP now represents the only real alternative to the centrist consensus of the three main parties." - Ananova
HANGING AND BLOGGING
"Those maligned middle-aged activists at the Conservative conference applauded gay civil partnerships, and all the other new brave causes. It was even said that they were responsive to the party young boffins' advocacy, around the conference, of blogs and blogging as a means of campaigning. Asian Tories are especially good at the internet, apparently." - Frank Johnson in the Telegraph
"Iconic election posters might not be enough to convince 21st-century voters, a leading Tory reformer has conceded - as another AM takes the direct route and joins the growing army of political bloggers." - Western Mail
10 LOST LEFTIE YEARS
"Listening to David Cameron plunges me into a black mood of anger and shame. Anger at the contempt he shows, behind the smokescreen of his NHS pledge, for the state and public services; shame at how Labour has paved the way for him to get away with it." - Derek Draper in the Guardian
SANDRA HOWARD OPPOSED WAR ON IRAQ
"The wife of failed Tory leader Michael Howard told her husband it was wrong to invade Iraq. Ex-model Sandra Howard admitted on BBC1's Question Time that she had rowed with him over the 2003 war." - Mirror
PETER OBORNE IN TODAY'S DAILY MAIL:
"When did you last watch a rough and tumble political debate on TV? The younger you are, the longer it is likely to have been. Young viewers are switching off from such shows and some, at least, blame the rules on fairness and objectivity that govern broadcasters for creating staid programmes. Enter, very much stage right, 18 Doughty Street - a new kid on the broadcasting block." - BBC News Magazine
CONSERVATIVEHOME IN THE ECONOMIST
"A few months ago ConservativeHome, an unofficial party blog, obtained an early leak of the party's A-list of new, improved candidates and swiftly published it, stimulating caustic comment about some of them. This week the site released a survey of its users, who revealed themselves to be ambivalent about the direction in which Mr Cameron is taking the party and impatient for tax cuts." - Economist
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