5pm ToryDiary: Live blog of tonight's documentary about Cameron
3pm ToryDiary: New LibDem team
12.45pm ToryDiary: Criticism with a smile - Cameron tells China to be more responsible at home and abroad
ToryDiary: Your chance to decide the winners of the Conservative Movement Awards 07/08
Interviews: Michael Gove answers your questions on Scotland, grammar schools and his fear of flying
Columnist Louise Bagshawe takes it all back: Save the Gordon!
Louisa Mitchell writes for the Platform about encouraging philanthropy in the financial services:
"In Britain we are willing to put our hands in our pockets when asked, but we do not tend to think about giving in a structured way. Changing from a reactive culture of charity to a more strategic culture of philanthropy is an important task which requires leadership. The State cannot do everything, nor should it; non-state providers can often do things better but they need capital and they need skills. Financial services professionals can provide both."
Cameron says we should lead the Green Revolution like we did the Industrial one
"Coal-fired power stations in Britain would have to be fitted with new technology under a Tory government to prevent carbon emissions being pumped into the atmosphere, David Cameron said in China yesterday. The Conservative leader, travelling with George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, pledged to ensure that all existing and new stations were equipped with devices that capture the emissions and store them underground." - Times
"The coal either has its CO2 removed, or captured after burning, to prevent it ending up in the atmosphere." - BBC
LibCon relations
"The new Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, has been widely characterised as a Cameron clone, but much less widely noticed is that Cameron's strategy has been quite specifically to target Lib Dem voters... This week's election of Nick Clegg is a mixed blessing for Cameron. He knows that with a Davealike leading the Lib Dems it will be harder for him to attract their voters." - Michael Cockerell in the Guardian
Michael Cockerell has a one hour documentary about David Cameron tonight at 7pm - BBC2
OsbCam relations
"Both men would obviously take the success that Mr Blair and Mr Brown achieved in winning three elections, but they want it without the tension... They do not deny that they have the occasional disagreement but decline to reveal what they are... Mr Cameron believes his sidekick is the man to tackle the Chinese threat and today confirms that Mr Osborne will be Chancellor if the Conservatives are elected." - Full Telegraph interview
Link for Daily Mail interview coming soon...
Yesterday's ToryDiary on their denial of a Granita pact
Conservatives are capable of winning, they just need more specific policies
"...the accusation will surface once more next year that there is a vacuum where there should be a programme. And forget ideology for a moment: the Tories are currently less prepared for government than they have been at any time since the First World War. Incoming Conservative PMs and their teams usually had experience at senior cabinet level. William Hague was Welsh Secretary, and several others were ministers, but that is about it. Tricks of the trade are going to have to be learnt somehow." - Iain Martin in the Telegraph
Clegg declares atheism, refuses to deny taking drugs
"Nick Clegg, the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, declared yesterday that he did not believe in God but refused to say whether he had taken drugs. Neither of which dented his sudden popularity with other party leaders, as Gordon Brown followed David Cameron in courting him." - Times
"He later said he had "enormous respect for people who have religious faith", that his wife is Catholic and that his children are being brought up Catholic." - BBC
Christmas fair lights: Traditional Conservatives love low tax, low immigration.. and high camp
"Probably for the best, then, that David Cameron has given up trying to wean his core voters off their addiction to ruinous electricity bills. On one of those night-sky satellite shots used to illustrate light pollution, the Tory slice of Hull would show up as a gigantic twinkly reindeer." - Robert Crampton in the Times
8m women who took time off work to care for their children have lost eligibility for full pensions - Mail
At 5pm Queen Elizabeth II will overtake Victoria as our longest-living monarch - Telegraph
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