11:30pm update: PlayPolitical.com - Ask Tony Blair and Gordon Brown a question.
7pm ToryDiary update: Blair's EU flip-flopping
4.30pm ToryDiary update: Des Browne fights for his political future
2pm updates:
ToryDiary: Five reasons why members should retain the right to rank MEPs and Over a quarter of urban yuppies are Tories
Seats and Candidates: Dagenham & Rainham shortlist
BLOGS
ToryDiary: Trains win central place in Tory transport policy
Britain and America: Reasons why anti-Americanism will continue with a Democrat in the White House
CF Diary: One day public speaking workshop
YourPlatform: Adrian Owens on tackling Gordon Brown's pensions apartheid
DES BROWNE'S JOB ON THE LINE
"Des Browne must resign from the Cabinet unless he can convince MPs that he still commands the support of the Armed Forces after the Iran captives fiasco, David Cameron said yesterday. The Tory leader stepped up the pressure on the Defence Secretary as John Reid, Mr Browne's predecessor at the MoD, admitted that his Cabinet colleague's job was now on the line." - Telegraph
"Des Browne, the defence secretary, is expected to face Tory calls for his resignation today as he goes to the Commons to explain his handling of the Iran captives cash-for-stories debacle.He must explain why he did not veto the controversial recommendation allowing them to sell their accounts to the press." - Guardian
LABOUR PONDER PLAID-TORY COALITION
"Labour is on the offensive against Plaid - the "separatists" as it calls them - claiming they have voted with the Tories more than 400 times in the last two years. The idea of left-leaning Plaid working with the Tories may seem curious, but the system means coalition governments are likely to become the norm." - Guardian
GOLDIE BELTED AT SCHOOL
"The leader of the Scottish Conservative Party has been something of a revelation on the campaign trail. She has ridden quad bikes, gone ten-pin bowling and delivered better one-liners than all her counterparts combined." - Scotsman
YEO KEEPING HIMSELF BUSY
"You don't often see a former Labour minister and a former Tory minister on the board of the same company. AFC Energy, the fuel cell company due to join the Alternative Investment Market later this month, has Tim Yeo, ex-Conservative environment minister, in the chairman's seat and Brian Wilson, once Tony Blair's energy minister, as a non-executive earning annual fees of £30,000 and £20,000 respectively." - Independent
BROWN ON SUU KYI
"Even amid personal loss and suffering, the iron has never entered her soul. And hers is an enduring courage, much more than a single act of daring; it is a deep, lasting commitment to a cause that sends a message to the world that no confinement or prison cell, no intimidation of brutality, no personal loss, or even the threat to life itself can destroy the spirit of a true leader, nor her faith in human nature - and it can never extinguish her determination that one day her people will be free." - Extract from Gordon Brown's book on heroes in the Guardian
GETTING AHEAD IN BROWN'S BRITAIN
"Life for the young graduate in his or her mid-twenties is much harder for the present generation than it was for the generations of the 1980s, or the 1960s. It is a mistake to be young in new Labour Britain; it has become much more difficult to get started in life, to find the first professional job or the first house." - William Rees-Mogg in the Times
LIST OF TOP 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL UNELECTED PEOPLE IN THE UK - Guardian
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