Columnist Jill Kirby: If the Liberal Democrats can't govern like team players, there's little reason to vote for them Iain Stewart MP: The English think they're being robbed by the Scots. The Scots think they're being robbed by the English. But what's the truth? Lord Ashcroft: How VC hero Johnson Beharry inspired and motivated London students Local government: Brentwood to cut the Council Tax by 2.1% VIDEO: Chris Grayling accuses anti-capitalist campaigners of trying to wreck Coalition's work programme David Cameron writes for The Sun about racism in football "Today in Downing Street I'm bringing together leading figures from right across the game to reaffirm our vigilance against racism — and all forms of discrimination. I am absolutely clear: we will not let recent events drag us back to the bad old days of the past." - The Sun Liam Fox calls for faster, deeper spending cuts to fund tax cuts for business and jobs - BBC | FT (£) Yesterday evening's ToryDiary: "In his most important intervention since resigning as Defence Secretary Liam Fox has issued a coded warning that the Coalition's deficit reduction strategy could be at risk if action is not taken to accelerate economic growth... In recommending faster cuts Dr Fox puts himself in sync with the Tory grassroots." David Laws also calls for George Osborne to bring forward tax cuts, but financed by new taxes on the top 5% - Writing in The Guardian the Lib Dem also describes Mr Osborne as "a very strong chancellor who gets the big decisions right". The FT (£) says the Treasury is looking again at a mansions tax. Mark Reckless and Chris Chope lead Tory rebellion against Osborne's child benefit cut for 40p taxpayers "Conservative rebels warned Chancellor George Osborne that unless he alters the plans to protect one-earner families, they will take the extraordinary step of attempting to vote down Budget legislation. It is almost unheard of for MPs to try to amend or bring down their own side’s finance Bills, and a defeat would raise questions about the survival of the Government." - Daily Mail The Daily Mail warns Osborne about the IMF bailing out the €urozone "The simple fact is that the IMF should not even be involved. Its role is to help countries that lack the economic means to survive – not to prop up a Franco-German ideology. Mr Osborne must tell the IMF to stop abusing its position and get its hand out of this nation’s pocket." - Daily Mail leader The Leveson Inquiry is ‘chilling’ free speech, warns Gove - The Sun Cameron has defended the government's plans for spreading wind farms across the country -HuffPo > Scrapping windfarm subsidies is one of the ideas in ConHome's Building A Majority series More than fifty Tory MPs ready to oppose Lords reform - Times (£) Downing Street was yesterday forced to deny claims that Ken Clarke's Ministry of Justice will be axed in a shake-up - The Sun Lib Dem party activists table motion calling for entire section of the bill extending competition in the health service to be scrapped - Guardian "Nick Clegg is likely to demand further concessions over plans to increase competition in the NHS in an attempt to head off a new Liberal Democrat revolt over the Health Bill" - Times (£) "The more distinctive the Deputy Prime Minister makes himself, the more Tories wonder why the Prime Minister isn’t doing the same" - Benedict Brogan in The Telegraph If you want a job, 'slave labour' at Tesco isn't a bad place to start - Christina Patterson in The Independent In reorganisation of the Borders Agency really the solution to immigration? - Simon Jenkins inThe Guardian is sceptical. Tory MP Nadine Dorries claims the reason women are still under-represented in Parliament is that politics 'simply doesn't appeal to the majority of young women' - Nadine Dorries MP for PoliticsHome MPs are calling on the government to simplify the law in England and Wales on missing people who are presumed dead - BBC Let teachers run John Lewis-style schools for profit, says Policy Exchange -Guardian Samantha Cameron uses Downing Street reception to talk up British fashion industry - Guardian Local government: Evening Standard exposes massive fraud in Mayoral vote Part 7 of our Building a Conservative Majority series:This is our best opportunity in a generation to oust Liberal Democrat MPs. We must pour resources into LibCon marginals and select Conservative candidates quickly once the boundary review is finalised.
Writing on his blog, Mark Reckless MP: "The policy is particularly toxic for colleagues who want to see the government do more to promote marriage and the traditional family, given the lack of movement so far on the government’s promise to recognise marriage in the tax system. However, the policy is also objectionable for those who want the tax system to be neutral between personal choices, since it clobbers single earner householders, most usually with a stay-at-home Mum, relative to dual-earner couples."
Michael Gove waded into the battle over independence yesterday, telling the English to lay off the Scots - Scotsman
Two Tory MPs add to pressure on Andrew Lansley
After Labour's obsession with multiculturalism, the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has at last said that the culture of the majority will once more be given pre-eminence in society - Simon Heffer in the Daily Mail
Peter Bone MP on Comment: My Parliamentary Bill to temporarily withdraw from the ECHR so we can immediately deport Abu Qatada
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