6pm BritainAndAmerica: Brown-Miliband likely to propose new multilateral body to combat climate change
5.45pm TheWrongMan: Gordon Brown - the plagiarist
5.15pm ToryDiary: Tories in Hampshire lead the way in thanking our troops
2pm ToryDiary: George Osborne - I'm no über-moderniser
12.15pm Seats and candidates: Party Board approves emergency selection procedures for "imminent" General Election
10.30am Seats and Candidates: Chester last three
10.15am ToryDiary: Tories call for global action to support Burma's brave protestors
ToryDiary: David Cameron at the Carlton Dinner
Seats and candidates: Andrew Pelling is suspended
Columnist Peter Franklin: The greatest Prime Minister
Platform: Dr Phillip Lee introduces Conservative Friends of Bangladesh
Simon Burns MP on BritainAndAmerica: Why Conservatives should welcome President Hillary Rodham Clinton
Cameron is out of touch warns Tebbit
"Lord Tebbit declared that Mr Cameron was regarded as out of touch by ordinary people and that it was only natural that Mr Brown should make himself the “heir to Thatcher”. Many people believed that the Conservative leader and his colleagues did not know how the other half lived, Lord Tebbit said." - The Times
Tebbit on Baroness Thatcher's Downing Street meeting with Brown: "I'm quite sure that Margaret Thatcher knew exactly what she was doing. She is first too well mannered to rebuff the Prime Minister and second of course the present Conservative leadership has been at great pains to distance himself from her and she is after all a woman." Quoted in The Telegraph.
David Cameron backs The Sun's EU Treaty campaign
"Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations. No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum." - The Tory leader writing for The Sun
Jeremy Clarkson also writes for The Sun about the Treaty: "If we had a Prime Minister with some backbone who one day wanted to oust Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe, a bunch of European lawyers could prevent it from happening. The treaty turns the British Parliament into a local government. A bit like your parish council at home. They’d be allowed to build park benches, and that would be about it. It has massive implications, and that’s why we absolutely MUST have a say."
The Sun Says column accuses David Miliband of showing "contempt" for Sun readers' desire for Labour to keep its promise on an EU Treaty vote.
Election speculation
"Pressure on Gordon Brown to go for an early election intensified yesterday when a poll showed Labour's lead had stretched to 11 points - a five point jump - which would be enough to give Mr Brown a three-figure overall majority in the Commons." - The Guardian
"Ladbrokes dramatically suspended betting on a poll this autumn following an avalanche of wagers. The bookies had slashed the odds on a General Election this year from 5/2 to 2/1 — before pulling the plug at 5pm yesterday." - The Sun
"Forget talk of an October election. If there is to be a contest this autumn it will almost certainly be on November 1 or 8, the first in that month since 1935. Whether there is one then is still in the balance." - Peter Riddell in The Times
"If there is no poll, Mr Brown risks sending a message not just that he has bottled out, but that the great statesman whose image he is still trying to construct is actually not above excursions into the infantile: and that won't do him a lot of good either." - Simon Heffer in The Telegraph
Tories = Chelsea FC
"The fate of the Conservatives mirrors that of Chelsea Football Club. Owned by the rich, untrusting of its manager and doomed to fall to an organisation led by a great Scotsman." - From a letter to The Telegraph by Ron Delnevo
Football fanatic Danny Finkelstein is keeping the faith
"Anyone who can’t conceive of Mr Cameron appealing to undecided voters in a burst of television exposure is demonstrating a failure of imagination. An autumn election? It is not hard to see Gordon Brown calling it in haste and repenting at leisure." - The Times
Conservative Muslim Forum encourages party leadership to engage with Iran - Mathaba
Labour in Bournemouth
"Health Secretary Alan Johnson has defended his speech at Labour's conference in Bournemouth in which he accused the Conservatives of mounting a "shabby and dishonest campaign for a moratorium on saving lives." - Sky News
"Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said the time has come to look again at extending the 28-day limit on holding terrorism suspects." - BBC
"The Labour Party was accused of hypocrisy when it emerged conference delegates had been denied the chance to see a hard-hitting advertisement which suggested that the Home Office was sending Darfur refugees back to Sudan to face torture. The Labour Party said that the film had not been shown because it distorted the facts but the film-makers insisted the facts it contained were true." - Independent
Miliband's debut speech: Patronising and babyish all at once - Quentin Letts in The Daily Mail
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