ToryDiary: Questions for the next ConHome readers' survey
Sir Andrew Green on Platform: The Government's Points Based immigration system is a potential disaster
Seats and candidates: SW Norfolk was threatened with All Women Shortlist if it didn't readopt Liz Truss, says Daily Mail
Parliament: ITN's three minute guide to the traditions behind the State Opening of Parliament
Tim Montgomerie on CentreRight: Thought for the Day should either be scrapped or deregulated
AmericaInTheWorld: Barack Obama avoids human rights talk during China visit
Tories vow to block Brown's Queen's Speech
"Tory peers are ready to block most of the government bills to be announced in the Queen's speech tomorrow, threatening to mire the final days of Gordon Brown's government in frustration and delay." - Guardian
> Yesterday evening's ToryDiary on the Tories' roadblock plan
George Osborne plans slimmer and more focused Treasury - Independent
Why is David Cameron spending an hour answering questions on a website for mothers?
Because their votes could decide whether he ends up at No 10, says Andy McSmith of The Independent
The Daily Mail urges David Cameron to trust the grassroots "Rural Tory associations can be infuriatingly old-fashioned and less forgiving of ladies who indulge in such eccentricities as breaking up marriages than the metropolitan Cameroons. But localism means devolving power from the centre – even if that gives local people the freedom to make mistakes." - Daily Mail comment
"Cameron, Osborne, Hague, Letwin, Hammond, Mitchell, Strathclyde... the Shadow Cabinet’s Millionaires’ Club. To raise their affluence is to expose how little the Cons have in common with ordinary people who endure spending cuts." - Mirror
Improving the care available for the elderly will be Labour's domestic policy "priority" says Brown - BBC
Ed Balls’ bid to evade the axe must fail - FT leader
"Alistair Darling and Ed Balls and were last night embroiled in a bitter feud over public spending. The Chancellor slapped down Mr Balls after he launched an audacious bid for a budget increase of £2.6billion over the next three years." - Daily Mail
David Miliband hints more troops will go to Afghanistan but insists it's not a 'fight to the death' - Daily Mail
Allister Heath issues a warning about further Quantitative Easing"With the economy now growing again, however feebly, it is important that monetary policy be tightened sooner rather than later. Quantitative easing was a good idea in 2009; it could prove to be an inflationary disaster in 2010." - City AM
The Daily Mail warns of trouble ahead on Europe"No matter who emerges triumphant from the cosy horse-trading, the new president will be on a collision course with the British people. In the bitter clash that’s sure to come, our political class, Tory and Labour alike, will rue the day they cheated us out of our referendum." - Daily Mail
Britain risks currency crisis if it does not take knife to deficit - The Telegraph reports on a Policy Exchange analysis written by Andrew Lilico
Daniel Finkelstein: Voters REALLY don't notice much of what politicians say
"In his invaluable book on the last election campaign, Smell the Coffee, Michael Ashcroft provides the result of polling he commissioned to track the impact of Conservative campaign activity. For two months in the run-up to polling day, voters were asked: “Has there been anything in the news about what the Conservative Party has been saying or doing that has caught your eye this week, whether on TV or radio or in the papers?” Most of the time the proportion who could think of nothing hovered around 90 per cent. And, Lord Ashcroft adds: “Even some events that were covered prominently in the news were re called by almost nobody.” Recall for most Tory promises peaked at 2 per cent. “The central campaign messages of cleaner hospitals and school discipline peaked at 1 per cent.” - Daniel Finkelstein in The Times
"Britain's 5.5 million Twitter users are younger than average members of the public, slightly more likely to vote Labour, and distinctly more liberal, according to a survey published today." - Guardian
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