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Wednesday 24 SeptemberBritain's leading conservative blog Today's top ConservativeHome features ToryDiary: A speech that won't change anything Cllr Leah Fraser on Seats and candidates: Why Wallasey and Worsley (and many seats like them) DO matter to the Conservative Party Local government: Vote against the Congestion Charge Extension Jesse Norman on Platform reviews The Plan Pre-Conference survey Are the Conservatives heading for a large victory? Should the party now be cautious in policy development and protect the opinion poll position? Do you fear John Reid as Labour leader? Should Michael Howard be in David Cameron's first Cabinet? Will David Cameron's first government be transformational or managerial? What do you think of Sarah Palin? Should David Cameron use his Party Conference speech to warn the British people that very tough times lie ahead? Should savings from Labour's spending plans be used to reduce borrowing or taxation? Is it time to suspend plans for higher green taxes? Click here to have your say. Other top news stories Ruth Kelly has asked to leave Cabinet - BBC The Daily Mail reports that Ruth Kelly was "disgusted" at Brown's speech. Will Brown's speech have any lasting effect? "Despite the warm reception Mr Brown received for the speech, his future is still uncertain. A strong showing from Mr Cameron next week at his own party conference in Birmingham and continued poor showings in the poll will again lead to Labour MPs returning to Westminster next month questioning whether they can win under Mr Brown." - Telegraph "His party, if it won't remove him, is doomed." - Simon Heffer in The Telegraph Business expressed concern at Gordon Brown’s signal of a potentially dramatic rise in climate change targets - FT Heseltine to Miliband... Lord Heseltine has offered the Foreign Secretary some advice through the pages of The Times (our paraphrasing): Don't make another false move of the kind Miliband took in the summer with his Guardian article that failed to mention Brown. Labour MPs won't vote for an end to Brown because that means an early election and turkeys don't vote for Christmas. Wait for Brown to lead the ship to disaster and then provide the (post-election) lifeboat. You (Miliband) are not equipped to satisfy the emboldened Left's hunger for anti-capitalism. Labour think the voters are wrong - Daniel Finkelstein in The Times Simon Hart gets £40,000 boost to his campaign to become Welsh MP "A hedge fund with its headquarters in New York has donated £40,000 to a local Conservative Association in rural Wales... Plaid Cymru’s national chair John Dixon said he was extremely concerned that a company with no local connections was prepared to put so much money into the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Conservative Association... The Tory candidate in the seat next time will be Simon Hart, chief executive of the pro-hunting campaign group the Countryside Alliance." - Western Mail Former Tory MEP Paul Howell dies in Mozambique plane crash - Times Bill Clinton praises Sarah Palin as "hot" - The Sun And finally... Andrew Rosindell is bitten by monkey during visit to Gibraltar - Independent

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