10.15pm ToryDiary: Another angle to George Osborne's £500,000
7.15pm BritainAndAmerica: Can Florida save Giuliani's White House ambitions?
1.30pm Local government: Eric Pickles warns of £92,000 'golden goodbye' for Ken Livingstone if he loses in May
11.30am ToryDiary: It is still wrong to take organs without consent says Andrew Lansley
10.45am Seats and candidates: Saj Karim MEP adopted by Conservative selectorate for 2009 European Elections
10am ToryDiary: Cameron calls on Hain to answer the public's questions or he should go
Platform: MPs who are not committed to active politics should make way for a new generation says 'Concerned Activist'
ICM puts Tories 7% ahead and YouGov gives Tories a 10% lead
The Tories' LibDem challenge
"Without making more inroads into Lib Dem support, the Tories are unlikely to start securing the kind of double-digit poll leads that would suggest they really were well-set to win the next election." - John Curtice in The Sunday Telegraph
Nick Clegg shifts right on public services and taxes - Sunday Telegraph
George Osborne under fire for failing to fully disclose £487,000
Money given via CCHQ for the Shadow Chancellor's office was declared to the Electoral Commission but not to the Register of Members' Interests - Mail on Sunday | BBC
Tories should dump Brown's spending plans - Iain Martin in The Sunday Telegraph
Tory education policies would reverse Britain's educational decline in global league tables - Michael Gove in The Sunday Telegraph
Maidstone Tories unhappy at interventions by CCHQ
"Hislop, the editor of satirical political magazine Private Eye, is to "compere" a selection meeting organised to choose the successor to retiring MP Ann Widdecombe. But the meeting is clouded in controversy, with local Tories in Miss Widdecombe's Kent constituency of Maidstone and The Weald describing the selection process as a farce because they say it favours women candidates." - Mail on Sunday
Last Wednesday we published the finalists for the contest to succeed Miss Widdecombe.
A Tory mayor in West Yorkshire is under fire for these 'anti-Muslim' remarks...
"I am aware Islamic organisations are keen to promote a view that they are peaceful, forward-thinking individuals who wish to integrate into the British way of life. The policy of clothing the feminine population of Dewsbury in black sack-like clothing from head to toe, the occasional trip out to cause mayhem with explosives and the proposal that all those of homosexual persuasion should be killed by shooting or other means is adequate and practical testimony to the level of progress being made in this direction." - More in The Observer
What if Boris wins the London Mayoralty?
"If Boris wins, his Tory critics outside the Cameroon camp predict trouble. That was Labour’s original worry about Livingstone. In the 1980s, when he was leader of the Greater London council, Ken’s loony-left antics undermined the national party. As mayor, Ken proved the doomsayers wrong. Mayor Boris is more likely be accused of laziness but won’t be an ideological liability." - Martin Ivens in The Sunday Times
Gordon Brown wants voters to opt out of organ donations - BBC
Westmonster blog on the announcement: " If the PM truly wants to rebound in the new year, Westmonster is rather confused as to how this image helps — how much of a stretch is it to envisage El Gordo in a lab coat leaning over a dead body, and holding a bloody scalpel, flogging your kidney on eBay? Is that what his handlers want? This is the kind of announcement that would be difficult to finesse if the government were soaring in the polls."
Brown's strategy chief 'misled media' on shares - Observer
Is Blair making a pitch to be EU President?
"In his most important speech since leaving Downing Street last June, addressing 2,000 supporters of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Blair said globalisation was eradicating traditional party lines and class distinctions and rendering old political remedies obsolete. 'It's about today versus yesterday. Less about politics and more about a state of mind; open as opposed to closed,' he said. 'Terrorism, security, immigration, organised crime, energy, the environment, science, biotechnology and higher education. In all these areas, and others, we are much stronger and able to deliver what our citizens expect from us as individual nations if we are part of a strong and united Europe,' he added before supporters of Sarkozy's Union Pour Un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) party. Blair, a close ally of Sarkozy who advised the French politician during his rise to power, is strongly backed by the French President to become President of the EU Council of Ministers in January next year, a position he has previously said he was not interested in." - Observer
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