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Today's top ConservativeHome features ToryDiary: The EU rebellion is a symptom of a breakdown in relations between Cameron and large numbers of his MPs ToryDiary: The Government planned to recruit from a terror suspect's supporters to the civil service fast stream Columnist Jill Kirby: Can the Coalition provide reassurance in the Age of Anxiety? Jesse Norman MP on Comment: The fate of the Eurozone hinges on leadership from Mrs Merkel Lord Ashcroft on Comment: The hunt for ten of Britain’s most wanted criminals as Crimestoppers campaign celebrates its fifth anniversary WATCH: Tory peer Lord Wolfson offers £250,000 prize for a blueprint for a country to leave €uro Caroline Spelman says she wants a "greener" Common Agricultural Policy Today's ConservativeHome newslinks Downing Street hopes fewer Tory MPs will rebel if Cameron attends debate - Guardian "David Cameron is to rush forward a landmark Commons vote on Britain's relationship with Europe. The move comes amid 'complete panic' in Tory high command about growing support in the party for a referendum." - Daily Mail Cameron starts playing catch-up over the EU referendum vote - Spectator The Express quotes Cameron's words on a referendum: “Of course in the longer term there may be further moves towards further treaties and so forth, and at that stage there may be opportunities to bring further powers back to Britain – and there may, indeed, be opportunities to hold a referendum, but I do not believe the right answer is to hold a referendum willy-nilly in this Parliament when we have so much to do to get Europe to sort out its problems.” David Cameron must let backbenchers vote freely on Britain's membership of the European Union - Chris Heaton-Harris in The Telegraph "Mr Cameron is following the classic recipe of the British political class over matters to do with the EU: pledge to hold referendums but never actually get round to doing so." - Express leader Eurosceptics are stirring again and there's panic in Downing Street - Steve Richards in The Independent "there is nothing Cameron could have said that would placate the Tory eurosceptics. Their agenda and the government's are incompatible. The PM wants the euro crisis to be resolved through diplomacy and without the need for any grand redrafting of EU treaties. The sceptics need to amplify the crisis so that a great renegotiation becomes inevitable." - Rafael Behr for the New Statesman Tory grassroots pressure may force wavering MPs to vote for referendum -Independent Vince Cable blames export markets and energy price hikes for a potential double dip recession - Guardian "Dozens of businesses will be sent funds over the next few weeks as part of the Government’s regional growth fund. It follows embarrassment for the Prime Minister in the House of Commons after he was forced to admit that only two companies have so far benefited from the £1.4 billion growth policy." - Times (£) Government abandons plans for the UK's first coal-fired power plant fitted with technology to capture and store carbon emissions "The flagship project at Longannet, the huge power station on the Firth of Forth, fell apart after the consortium planning to build it, headed by ScottishPower and including Shell and the National Grid, demanded considerably more investment than the £1bn which the Government had set aside for the scheme." - Independent "The decision came under fire from environmental groups and First Minister Alex Salmond, who said it was an “enormous lost opportunity”." - Scotsman What is carbon capture? - Herald Subsidies for households to install solar panels are about to be slashed by ministers - FT (£) "The number of households in “fuel poverty” would fall almost a third to 2.7m if the government were to accept a new definition of the problem suggested by an independent inquiry." - FT (£) 12,000 responses to planning consultation may mean four to five month delay to reforms - Times (£) If planning reform is rushed, it will ruin the face of Britain - Hillary Benn inThe Telegraph Ken Clarke aims to bust bureaucracy that stops individuals taking legal action against intelligence services - FT (£) Brooke Kinsella blasts David Cameron for breaking promise on knife crime "I supported the Conservatives pre-election because they promised tough discipline. As someone who has lost a loved one to knife crime, I don't think that is too much to ask. The vast majority of the public, victims' families and charities all want it. That was Cameron's promise to me and it has been broken." - Brooke Kinsella for The Sun Chair of health service quango says Andrew Lansley's Health Bill is "completely unintelligible" - Guardian Cameron's 'regret' over Hillsborough: PM all but apologises for Thatcher government blunders - Daily Mail Adam Werritty funded by businessmen introduced to former Defence Secretary by a Party Treasurer -Guardian Liam Fox attacks ‘hounds’ in the media over political scandal - Metro Fox began to sound as if he was accepting an Oscar - Quentin Letts in the Mail Standards Commissioner plans Liam Fox inquiry -Independent Dr Fox should be allowed his £17,000 payoff -Independent leader Liam Fox's last interview before resigning as Defence Secretary - Total Politics Public Accounts Committee warns that MORE aid could be lost to corruption because Andrew Mitchell is spending more money in high risk nations and vioa the EU/ World Bank - BBC Directly-elected mayor crucial to Liverpool's future, conclude Heseltine and Leahy in 170 word report for David Cameron - Times (£) Who is in charge? Liverpool needs a Boris - Ex Tesco boss Terry Leahy in The Times (£) Murdo Fraser has the overwhelming support of Tory MSPs - David McLethchie in letter to Scotsman Nick Clegg: Egypt's harsh and outdated Emergency Law must be lifted - The Deputy PM writing in The Independent Britain's most senior judge says courts can ignore European human rights rulings - Times (£) A former offender Danny Kruger had taken under his wing, and about whose life of crime he had commissioned a play, has gone on the run just days before the opening night - Times (£) Politicians who allowed mass immigration and failed to build enough houses are bullying the elderly into giving up their homes - Stephen Glover in theDaily Mail And finally... 'Cool' Duke of Cambridge named most influential man of the year ahead of David Cameron and President Obama - Daily Mail Highlights from yesterday ToryDiary: Andrew Rosindell raises the EU referendum at PMQs, and Mark Pritchard asks about fiscal union MPsETC: A parting shot from Liam Fox WATCH: Liam Fox - "There was in some quarters a personal vindictiveness and hatred that should worry all of us." Tim Montgomerie on Comment: Why The Telegraph is "sh*tbagging" me David Campbell Bannerman MEP on Comment: Don't whip the EU vote, Mr Cameron ConHome on Twitter and

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