Also, on a busy ToryDiary: Azeem Ibrahim on Platform: The stark truth of what the National Debt means for us all Local government: The battle for Chorley and for Walsall ConservativeHome's Election Gallery: More photographs uploaded including some beautiful snaps of Samantha Cameron More here. The overnight polls have the Tories 3%, 5%, 8% and 10% ahead -ToryDiary "The Conservatives are winning the student vote on the UK's university campuses, a poll suggests. Three in 10 (30%) are planning to vote Tory in the upcoming election, compared with just over one in five (21%) who are backing Labour. The Liberal Democrats are just behind, with 19% of students planning to give them their vote." - Express The ten best Tory policies - The Sun Business leaders give guarded approval to Tory manifesto - Telegraph The Conservatives on Tuesday matched Labour’s manifesto pledge to raise the basic state pension in line with earnings, rather than prices, from 2012 - FT "We should rejoice at the Conservative Party's clearly stated belief that government spending, borrowing and taxation - all to prop up a vast, incompetent, self-reliance sapping state - must be reduced if Britain is to have a hope of prospering." - Daily Mail leader "Manifestos are expected to be boring. This one is not. It is thought-provoking, imaginative and intelligent. It is worldly, open-minded and peppered with ideas from other countries." - Times leader "Faced with the detritus of the largest financial collapse of the past 80 years, the Conservatives have little coherent to offer. Some reasonably strict constraints on the City and on bank profits coexist in the Tory manifesto with the gut conviction that the economy is in general over-regulated and business overtaxed." - Guardian leader "Mr Cameron’s plan is attractive in its hostility to the suffocating state. His scepticism towards dirigiste industrial policy also hits the mark. But overall this is a manifesto drawn from a time of plenty, not one for a lean era. As with Labour’s manifesto, it falls short of a decisive plan to address the fiscal deficit. Voters do not know how either of the main parties would close the gap." - FT leader > On ToryDiary yesterday we highlighted the reactions of ten pundits Cameron's manifesto avoids electric policy in favour of theory - Tim Montgomerie in The Guardian "The four main themes of the 103-page booklet are fair taxes, more chances for children, a fairer and greener economy, and cleaning up politics. Policies include a guarantee to protect the state pension, and more pay for members of the armed forces." - BBC Only we are green, says Clegg - Independent Gordon Brown has admitted he made a mistake in not introducing tougher bank regulation when he was Chancellor - BBC Lord Alan Sugar gives Labour £400,000 for campaign - Telegraph The Daily Mail has photographs of Samantha Cameron's gothic toenails and growing bump.ToryDiary: Ten tips for Cameron ahead of the election debates
It’s completely up to you how you do it – it can be as informal or formal as you like. You could just invite some friends to gather around your TV over pizza, or you could arrange an organised evening that is open to a large number of people...
"The 69-year-old Westminster veteran applauded the party leader’s call for a “big society”, dismissing Margaret Thatcher’s insistence that there was no such thing as “one of her more foolish remarks”. He was adamant that his appetite for politics has not diminished. “I’m enjoying the campaigning, funnily enough – except I feel stiffer after walking the streets than I used to.” - FT
Wednesday 14 April 2010
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