Alistair Thompson on Platform: Not only is the rise in anti-social behaviour a result of Labour's irresponsible policies, but they have also prevented the police from getting to grips with the problem
The Sun will be backing the Tories at the next election... but not yet in Scotland - BBC
Will The Daily Mail be the next to back the Conservatives?Polly Toynbee's verdict on Brown's speech: "Little was bold or high risk enough to turn the hostile tide" - The Guardian
Benedict Brogan in The Telegraph agrees: "His speech had to persuade a demoralised party to stick with him until polling day by giving them something to fight for. This he did, and the betting must now be that he will be allowed to lead his party into the election. But by producing a speech for a party audience, he offered nothing to explain to the voters out there why they should stick with him next time."
"Gordon Brown put tackling antisocial behaviour at the top of his policy agenda as he set out his plan to pacify an angry Middle Britain." - Scotsman
Voters to be given 'right to recall' corrupt MPs by Gordon Brown - Telegraph
"The prospect of supervised homes for teenage mothers was one of the most eye-catching policy announcements Gordon Brown made in his speech, but the absence of any clear detail about how the commitment would be implemented triggered unease from charities who support young parents." - Guardian
Sarah Brown hails 'hero' Gordon at Labour Party conference - Telegraph
In The Times, Alice Thomson does not approve of Sarah Brown's introduction to her husband: "Why should we vote for her man just because she fell for his brooding stare and floppy locks ten years ago? Does she realise that she has set the cause of women back by years? What’s the point in Harriet Harman introducing equality legislation, when Gordon’s wife is telling the girls to vote for Mr Brown because she still fancies him and he is a gentle soul, not because of his economic policy — figures are far too hard for the weaker sex to grasp."
THE NEXT TWO LINKS MIGHT JUST BE RELATED...(1) Brown promises referendum on scrapping first-past-the-post voting if Labour wins election - Daily Mail
(2) Simon Heffer: Only the Liberal Democrats can save Labour"Labour is withholding campaign money from lazy MPs and candidates in marginal seats who are not showing an appetite to fight the election, The Times can reveal. For the first time Labour election officials are demanding that those standing in marginal seats must provide evidence of the scale of their campaign before they are allocated funds for leaflets and mailshots."
Ben Bradshaw: The BBC must change to survive - Independent
25 years after Brighton bomb, Labour lets unrepentant Martin McGuinness into the Grand Hotel - Daily Mail
It's not just Labour that is in trouble... the Left is in retreat across Europe"Across the main capitals of Europe, the traditional parties of the centre-left are in retreat. On Sunday, Germany’s Social Democratic party, the oldest and grandest of them all, went down to its worst postwar defeat at the hands of Angela Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democrats. One day after the SPD scored just 23 per cent in the German poll, the ruling British Labour party saw its opinion poll rating in the UK fall to the same figure – in third place behind the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. But why should the left be doing so badly at precisely the time when raw and unregulated free-market capitalism has precipitated a global financial crisis? ..." - FT
"The ASBO, has all too often been an excuse to delay criminal sanctions, allowing problems to escalate" - Jill Kirby in The Times explains why ASBOs have failed and are a completely inadequate response to the Pilkington tragedy
Scotland's recession sees first increase in thefts for a decade - Telegraph
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