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Wednesday 3rd DecemberBritain's leading conservative blog Today's top ConservativeHome features ToryDiary: Credit crunch forces job cuts and pay freeze at CCHQ Jesse Norman on Platform: We need to reexamine the basis of economic policy itself Cllr Leah Fraser on Local government: Lib Dem/Lab run Wirral Council raise Council Tax but slash services International: Sarah Palin helps Republicans to victory in Georgia WATCH: Opposition MPs seek full debate on Speaker's handling of Damian Green's arrest and office search AmericaInTheWorld: Condoleezza Rice pays tribute to "special" US-UK relationship and plays piano for The Queen during final official visit to Britain Two overnight highlights VIDEO: Conservative release video of search of Damian Green's office Charles Tannock MEP on CentreRight: Conservative MEPs - what are the options for alliances? Today's other newslinks Michael Howard and Ken Clarke set to lead questioning of Speaker "Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs are planning a joint assault on the authority of Speaker Michael Martin over his role in allowing a police raid on the Parliamentary office of Damian Green... Former Tory ministers including Ken Clarke and Michael Howard are expected to spearhead the backlash over Mr Green’s detention." - Daily Mail "The Damian Green affair is a political gift to the Conservatives, because it lays bare Brown’s Britain. Parliament itself has been corrupted, shamed by an assault on its historic freedoms. There will be no need for synthetic indignation in the Commons chamber this afternoon — the anger of MPs is almost as great as that of the rest of us. Michael Martin has presided over one of the most deplorable episodes in modern parliamentary history. It is hard to see how his Speakership can survive it or deserve to." - Max Hastings in The Daily Mail David David and Lord Foulkes debate Speaker on Radio 4's Today programme - BBC listen again Jacqui Smith blasts Dominic Grieve as she denies knowledge of Green's arrest "Jacqui Smith last night accused David Cameron of being “entirely unfit” to be a Prime Minister — as the Damian Green row turned personal. The Home Secretary blasted the Tories’ “mischievous” claims that she DID know cops were probing an MP." - The Sun "Britain's most senior civil servant has reminded Whitehall staff that it is their duty to serve the Government of the day, following the arrest of a Home Office official for allegedly leaking documents to the Tories." - Telegraph Michael Gove: We need a Swedish education system "We would encourage new providers to locate in areas of disadvantage – through a pupil premium rewarding schools for taking children from the poorest backgrounds. There is already evidence that what has worked in Sweden can work here. In Hackney new schools have been created outside bureaucratic control. One of them, Mossbourne, is one of the best comprehensives in the country." - Michael Gove in The Independent Tory council education chief quits after admitting working with the IRA in the 1970s - Daily Mail Cllr Maria Gatland's resignation was discussed on the Local government pages yesterday. Tory-UUP deal is good for Unionism "Although Mr Cameron is unlikely to agree with the position taken by many Ulster Unionists — including Sir Reg Empey — that the Conservative Party has made “many mistakes” in Northern Ireland in the past, he has certainly give a powerful boost to the staunchly pro-Union tradition within the Conservative Party." - Letter to the Belfast Telegraph from David Shiels Peter Mandelson, will set out plans for a new age of "industrial activism" - Guardian | FT "Banks will face huge fines if they do not treat their customers fairly, under a crackdown to be announced by the Government today." - Independent "Former Cabinet Minister John Redwood said households must cut back on extravagant lifestyles to cope with the economic downturn." - Daily Mail Full tax-raising powers ruled out by review of Scottish devolution - Telegraph Tory grandee Sir Paul Judge sued by former wife over £14m charity agreement - Telegraph William Hague's mother dies at eighty - Sheffield Star Our main sites Homepage. ToryDiary. Seats and candidates. Local government. Parliament. Platform. CentreRight. International. PlayPolitical videos.

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