ToryDiary: Should the Party run candidates for election as Police Commissioners? Also on ToryDiary: 9/11, ten years on. We began with Bin Laden. We end with Tariq Jahan. Also on Comment: Mark Fox reviews Matthew Hancock and Nadhim Zahawi's "Masters of Nothing": A coherent and compelling analysis of what caused the crash Local Government: Parliament: An absence of backbench grovelling to "liberal, practical Conservative" Cameron over Libya Deputy Prime Minister reveals view of NHS reform 1) Clegg supports Cameron over health service... 2) ...Clegg opposes Cameron over health service "The Tories and Liberal Democrats are facing a fresh clash over the government's NHS reforms after Nick Clegg encouraged his MPs to put "probing questions" to ministers when the bill returns to the Commons on Tuesday. In a two-hour meeting with his parliamentary party on Monday night, the deputy prime minister held out the possibility that he will accept amendments to the heath and social care bill when it moves to the House of Lords later this month." - The Guardian "It remains an issue that for this most complex of bills, so little time has been allowed for Commons debate and that most of the serious discussion will take place in an unelected House of Lords." - Sarah Wollaston MP, The Guardian LibDem Chief Executive stands down - The Independent > Yesterday: Prime Minister "moves to water down new EU job laws" "The Prime Minister’s office secretly commissioned its own legal advice on the Agency Workers Directive, which concluded that the impact of the new laws could be moderated. The directive, to be introduced under EU law, will give temporary agency workers the same rights as full-time workers to pay, holiday and maternity leave after 12 weeks of employment. The laws are expected to cost British businesses almost £2 billion a year." - Daily Telegraph > Yesterday: Bill Cash MP on Comment - It's the EU, stupid - The UK should take the lead in renegotiating all the European Treaties Libyan rebel leader torture victim to sue Britain Clarke says riots caused by "broken" penal system "Revealing for the first time that almost 75% of those aged over 18 charged with offences committed during the riots had prior convictions, Clarke said the civil unrest had laid bare an urgent need for penal reform to stop reoffending among "a feral underclass, cut off from the mainstream in everything but its materialism". Writing in the Guardian, Clarke dismisses criticism of the severity of sentences handed down to rioters and said judges had been "getting it about right"." - The Guardian Hancock and Zahawi claim City needs women to fight macho culture Two Tory authors described as "commies in a blue wrapper" - Benedict Brogan, Daily Telegraph Tory fundraiser attacks Murdo Fraser rebrand plan "Tory financier Sir Jack Harvie, who raises the bulk of the £1 million annual funds for the Scottish Conservatives, yesterday warned the "arrangement would most certainly not apply" if controversial proposals from leadership frontrunner Murdo Fraser for a breakaway centre-right party in Scotland were approved…His comments were released by one of Mr Fraser's rivals in the leadership election, Glasgow list MSP Ruth Davidson." - Scotsman Time for a Scottish Unionist Party - Lord Tebbit > Yesterday: Edinburgh University to charge English students £36,000 - The Herald Boris unveils memorial for 9/11 George W Bush speaks of 9/11 agony - The Sun > Yesterday on ThinkTankCentral: Policy Exchange: How Muslims fought for Britain in the past, and how more can do so in future Cameron won't vote on Dorries amendment "Nadine Dorries has put down an amendment under which all women considering a termination would be offered independent counselling. But David Cameron will not vote for it…because it would prevent abortion providers such as Marie Stopes from offering counselling themselves…Mrs Dorries has accused the Coalition of 'covert whipping’, after a letter was sent to MPs detailing why the Department of Health was against the proposals." - Daily Mail So far, we’ve got it right on assisted suicide - Keith Starmer, The Times (£) > Yesterday: Stewart Jackson MP on Comment - Pragmatism and consensus is the lifeblood of this Coalition - but do Conservatives really want Liberal Democrat activists to have a veto even on matters of conscience? National Trust and CPRE claim planning reforms risk "irreversible damage" to the countryside Prime Minister to visit Moscow next week - Financial Times (£) Patten blocks BBC boss's bid to give managers 10% pay bonuses despite cuts - Daily Mail ComRes poll suggests scrapping 50p tax rate would be seen as unfair - The Independent Political News and Comment in Brief And finally…Samantha Cameron's mile in heels for Save the Children "The walk, from Downing Street to Somerset House, was undertaken by the Prime Minister’s wife and several designers including Christopher Kane, Christopher Bailey and Sarah Burton, who created the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress. Mrs Cameron’s leather open-toed sandals were less punishing than they appeared. Downing Street confirmed they were a well-worn pair from Topshop. “I’m afraid they are quite an old pair,” said a spokeswoman, “but comfortable.” - The Times (£) Comment: Local Government: Would Clegg ban free schools in Sheffield Hallam? Parliament: Parliament returns for a busy fortnight before conference season International: Australian Labor steps into its environmentally-friendly electoral coffin ConHomeUSA: Four reasons why Mitt Romney's new strategy of attacking Perry as a "career politician" won't work, and the rest of today's top Republican and American political news
Dr Eamonn Butler on Comment: The autonomy and accountability of Free Schools will ensure they succeed"The Deputy Prime Minister has promised to stick by the deal that he negotiated with the Prime Minister and Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, before the summer. His assurances come as a group of health service leaders also renewed their calls for “significant further amendments” to the Health and Social Care Bill, which returns to the House of Commons today…Party political tensions over the Bill are likely to rise further with Mr Clegg’s assurance, which risks inflaming relations with some Lib Dem party members." - The Times (£)
"Abdel Hakim Belhadj – now working with Nato to hunt down the tyrant – has vowed to sue Britain for helping to snatch him in 2004. As well as ‘selling’ him to the Libyans, the UK allowed his ‘extraordinary rendition’ via British territory Diego Garcia, secret documents reveal. Belhadj claims he was forced to take truth drugs and left hanging by his wrists in a Tripoli cell as his interrogators demanded to know the whereabouts of Bin Laden." - Daily Mail
"David Cameron told MPs on Monday that the accusations were “significant”, but warned against rushing to judge security personnel or members of the previous government. The prime minister said: “It was entirely understandable that it was the last government’s wish to have a new relationship with Libya, but in some instances it was too credulous. MPs and campaigners warned however that Sir Peter’s inquiry, which is being boycotted by several human rights groups, might not be robust enough to inspire public confidence." -Financial Times (£)"The City’s overtly macho culture…needs to be countered by hiring more women for senior roles, say two Tory MPs. In Masters of Nothing, Matthew Hancock, George Osborne’s former adviser, and Nadhim Zahawi, former chief executive of the polling agency YouGov, write that there is an “urgent need” to get more women into City boardrooms and call on the government to introduce legislation to force change if its target of 30 per cent female representation on boards is not met quickly." - Financial Times (£)
"Boris Johnson helps to unveil a poignant sculpture dedicated to those killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He joined former New York City Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen and US artist Miya Ando at its temporary location in Battersea Park, South London. The 28ft sculpture is built from three sections of the World Trade Center buildings, hit by two passenger jets ten years ago this Sunday." - The Sun"Campaigners today called on the Government to fundamentally rethink proposed planning reforms, which they said risked 'irreversible damage' to towns and countryside. Proposals to reform the planning laws have provoked stiff opposition from organisations such as the National Trust and the Campaign to Protect Rural England which fear they could lead to a return to damaging development." - Daily Mail
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