- Cameron attacks "secretive, power-hoarding and controlling" Brown
- The homophobic, sexist and racist Tory grassroots?
- Conservatives will end Councils' veto on new school buildings
- Mark Wallace highlights the massive payoff that Kent's Chief Executive will be receiving
Seats and candidates: Former policeman George Lee describes a busy week on the campaign trail as candidate for Holborn and St Pancras - including a visit from David Cameron and George Osborne
ThinkTankCentral: The Centre for Social Justice announces new work programmes on reoffending and Britain's ageing population
International: Sarah Palin becomes queen of America's anti-government protestors
About ConservativeHome: Another milestone in ConservativeHome's displacement of 'Torygraph' as party's in-house journal
ToryDiary: If Conservatives don't campaign (responsibly) on immigration, others will do so in an irresponsible and dangerous way
ToryDiary: The fundamental flaw in Matthew Parris' argument
Seats and Candidates: Therese Coffey selected for Suffolk Coastal and Sajid Javid selected for Bromsgrove
Roger Helmer MEP: Al Gore and his followers are losing the climate change debate
Seats and Candidates: Should it matter whether or not a candidate is "local"?
Seats and candidates: The extent of the increase in women and ethnic minority Conservative MPs at the general election
Gareth Johnson on Platform: Labour's scandalous early release of prisoners demonstrates the need for honesty in sentencing
"David Cameron and George Osborne are drawing up plans to impose real-terms spending cuts that would see Britain's public services slashed by billions of pounds during the next parliament. Senior Tory sources have told the Guardian that the party leadership is determined to press ahead with cuts that go dramatically further than Labour's plans for an overall spending freeze –already likened to a return to the 1970s – from next year." - Guardian
Ireland's suffering offers a glimpse of Britain's future under the Tories - Larry Elliott in The Guardian
Budget ‘pencilled in’ for late March suggests May 6 election - Times
Strong link between opinion polls and bond markets "Markets like certainty and, to most analysts and traders, a hung parliament means delays in cutting Britain’s mounting debt burden. The Sunday Telegraph/ICM survey is the latest poll suggesting the Tories could fall short of an overall majority. UK bonds have sharply underperformed those of Germany – the European benchmark – since late November, when the first opinion poll of 2009 pointed to a hung parliament." - FT
Cameron sides with Osborne in tactical dispute with Steve Hilton
"Steve Hilton, Mr Cameron's director of strategy, is believed to favour a broad-brush campaign built around the Tories' "year of change" slogan. But the shadow Chancellor George Osborne, who is in charge of the election effort, believes the Hilton "vision approach" is too vague and that the party needs to spell out a small number of concrete pledges so voters know how the "change" would be delivered. Insiders say Mr Cameron has now sided with Mr Osborne against Mr Hilton in an intense internal debate." - Independent
Cameron instructs advisors "to get a grip" after jittery January - Belfast Telegraph
Cameron has abandoned plans to seek a pre-election White House meeting with Barack Obama - FT
Tories say Labour plans to offer one-to-one home care for cancer patients are unaffordable - Express
The Tories yesterday accused Alistair Darling’s special advisers of using neutral civil servants to mount party political attacks - City AM | Yesterday's LeftWatch
Every defendant convicted in a criminal court would have to pay a levy of £200 under plans being put forward by the Conservatives - Times
Could Brighton Pavilion elect Britain's first Green MP? - Jon Harris in The Guardian
> Yesterday's Seats and candidates: The seats which would change hands on Ladbrokes' current projection of a Tory majority of 33
Gordon Brown will be in power for ever if Cleggie gets PR "It is, of course, bare-faced cheek from Gordon to suggest that we should change the voting system just as the country is about to use that system to eject him from office. It is positively Mugabe-esque. And it is exactly the opposite of what parliament and politics need. The great expenses scandal has shown what happens when you allow the party machines to stitch things up in their own interests. Why on earth should we respond to that crisis by adopting PR? Under any version of PR there is a list system that transfers the power to pick MPs away from the people and towards the party machines." - Boris Johnson in The Telegraph
If Gordon Brown wants electoral reform, he should make constituencies the same size - Philip Johnston in The Telegraph
> Yesterday's LeftWatch: Gordon Brown's electoral reforms would increase Labour's advantage
Bruce Anderson: Labour has no plan for a fourth term
"Lord Mandelson has another difficulty. The other day, a Cabinet minister had lunch with a journalist. "What happens if you win?" enquired the hack. The minister looked astonished. It was clear that this possibility had not occurred to him. Having regained the power of speech, he replied: "There'd be an immediate leadership challenge"." - Bruce Anderson in The Independent
Ukraine braced for conflict as exit polls signal end of Orange Revolution - Times
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