3.30pm ToryDiary: CCHQ lose two star employees
3.15pm ToryDiary: Heseltine warns of difficult times ahead
3pm ToryDiary: Hague calls for Mugabe, and those who welcome him, to be shamed in Lisbon
10.45am ToryDiary: Two years of David Cameron
ToryDiary: Geoffrey Van Orden given task of negotiating new partners for Tory MEPs
Columnist Theresa May: Nevermind John Darwin, where have Jacqui, Harriet, Ed, Douglas and Gordon been?
Platform: Tony Makara believes we should be worried about decadent role models
Seats and candidates: Richard Normington selected for Cambridge
BritainAndAmerica: Mitt Romney's step of faith
Banning gazumping
"The making and accepting of an offer on a house would be made legally binding under Tory proposals. The plans could end gazumping, when a seller agrees to an offer on a house only to accept a higher bid at the last minute. They would also cut how long it takes to exchange contracts, according to Conservative housing spokesman Grant Shapps. He hopes to bring down the average time it takes to buy a home from three months to one." - Mail
Cameron speech to Cardiff Business Club
"David Cameron has launched his strongest attack on Gordon Brown's economic record, accusing him of leaving Britain "ill-prepared" to weather the current storms in the global economy. The Tory leader said last night that, despite 15 years of growth, the British economy was now seen as more vulnerable to a slowdown than its competitors." - Independent
More fiscal autonomy to Scotland to avoid total independence
"Scotland could be given greater tax and spending powers in an attempt to thwart demands for a vote on independence. A "constitutional commission" is to be set up after Labour, Liberal Democrat and Tory MSPs supported a "pro-union" pact at Holyrood in Edinburgh yesterday." - Guardian
Reaction to energy revolution
"Britain's power generators have reacted sharply to Tory proposals to boost micro-generation, saying that the plans represented a call for a "revolution". Under the proposals published yesterday by the Conservative leader, David Cameron, homes and businesses would be given incentives, through feed-in tariffs, to switch to micro-generation, producing their own electricity from equipment such as solar panels or small wind turbines." - Guardian
A bonfire of bureaucrats
"The Conservatives must come up with policy initiatives that weaken the power of the state rather than entrench it. The first step is to adopt a slash-and-burn approach to bureaucracy - and that means firing bureaucrats. If you employ hundreds of thousands of extra bureaucrats - as Gordon Brown has - do not be surprised if they come up with hundred of thousands of extra regulations. It's what bureaucrats do. The only way to stop them is to get rid of them." - Iain Dale in the Telegraph
Government effectively admits prison works
"The decision of the Government to increase the number of prison places to 100,000 is a tacit admission that the criminal justice policy of all British governments for the past half-century has been based upon lies and deceptions. The consistent failure to immobilise criminals properly has been a wicked and sanctimonious betrayal of the working class by middle-class intellectuals" - Theodore Dalrymple in the Times
Government not stopping fish wastage
"The government was yesterday accused of having "no intention" of stopping fishermen being forced to dump valuable fish overboard. A Tory MP, Bill Wiggin, said the junior environment minister Jonathan Shaw was attacking the practice but his department was not going to halt it." - Scotsman
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