7.45pm ToryDiary: Tory lead doubles to 14% according to ComRes
6.30pm ToryDiary: Voices of the right
5.30pm LondonMayor: Dirty tricks Ken starts throwing the mud
3pm: Latest Boris PEB online, includes new scene on small businesses
2.45pm Peter Franklin on CentreRight: "Brown's colleagues must surely realise that the idea of presenting the country with a second unelected Prime Minister in the space of year is unconscionable."
11.45am Local government: Our placards are bigger than yours!
11am Harry Phibbs on CentreRight:
9.30am ToryDiary: A day in the life of David Cameron
ToryDiary: Can anyone sum up in one memorable sentence what the Cameron-led Tories stand for?
Platform: Ryan Shorthouse advocates mixed-age classrooms
Parliament: Highlights of Ed Vaizey's speech about obesity
PlayPolitical video: Gordon Brown tries to impress Condi Rice but is outclassed by Nicolas Sarkozy in the latest Headcases comedy sketch
Mayoral and local election news
Boris Johnson answers questions from The Independent
Labour MPs don't want Brown on the campaign trail with them - Daily Mail
Tories must make 200 gains - Professor Colin Rallings in The Telegraph
"The councils to watch are Reading, where Labour could easily lose overall control, and councils now with no overall control that the Tories could capture on a small shift of seats, such as Cheltenham, Vale of Glamorgan, Bury and North Tyneside." - Peter Riddell in The Times
Electoral fraud
Joseph Rowntree report says UK elections fall short of international standards on integrity - BBC
"Rowntree is not the first organisation to point out the shortcomings of the British democratic process. The Council of Europe, the Electoral Commission and the Electoral Reform Society have all highlighted serious defects" - Times leader
A Tory councillor has been found guilty of using bogus postal votes to ensure he was voted into office - BBC
Only 22% of businesses believe that they'd be a Conservative priority
"Fewer than one in four companies have faith in David Cameron to deliver for them, according to a survey by the British Chambers of Commerce. The Populus poll found only 22 per cent of businesses believed the Conservatives would make the needs of business a priority. Labour’s rating was even worse, at only 14 per cent, in a survey revealing a deep-seated corporate cynicism about politicians’ ability to grasp business needs." - FT
Janet Daley: The Conservatives must do more to enthuse
"If the electorate is forced to choose between a party it has come to hate, and another that it regards as vacuous, it is more likely to stay at home. And what is going to be critical for a Tory victory both this week, and in the eventual general election, will be a high turnout." - Janet Daley in The Telegraph
Bruce Anderson: Public services for all will be David Cameron's priority
"Shortly before Nicolas Sarkozy became President of France, he visited London and told David Cameron how much he admired the economic reforms which Margaret Thatcher had pushed through in the 1980s. Mr Cameron was struck by this. Afterwards, he said that he hoped that the day would come, perhaps in the 2030s, when a French presidential candidate would tell a Tory leader how much he admired the public service reforms of the 2010s." - Bruce Anderson in The Independent
Brownite Smith Institute and IDS' Centre for Social Justice to co-operate on early intervention - Independent
LibDems ought to be doing better says Vince Cable - ePolitix.com
"I did not come into politics to be an annexe to the Labour party or an annexe to the Conservative party." - Nick Clegg on Today, PoliticsHome.com
Ministry of Defence overwhelmed by combination of commitments and budgetary restrictions - FT
ToryDiary: Who deserves the credit for the Tory comeback?
Peter Franklin on CentreRight: Muslim supremacist is the expression we should use instead of Islamist etc
Please use this thread to highlight other interesting news and commentary and visit PoliticsHome.com for breaking political news and views throughout the day.
