Sunday 4th May 2008

4.15pm Seats and candidates: Tories paint Tamsin Dunwoody as "outsider" who won't stand up to Gordon Brown

2.15pm LondonMayor: And let's not forget the new Conservative GLA team...

1.45pm PlayPolitical video: You may be glad to have missed it but if not... Watch Jeremy Vine dress up as a cowboy as part of BBC1's local elections coverage.  Public service broadcasting?  We don't think so.

1pm, Nigel Evans MP on CentreRight: Thursday was a calamity for Nick Clegg, too

11.30am ToryDiary: Tories promise "policy striptease" as Brown bores on

ToryDiary: Will Boris be green?

Trouble for Brown

• "Our people are abandoning us, we're sinking fast and no amount of hand-wringing and promises of 'listening and learning' will change that." - Jon Cruddas in The Sunday Mirror
• Left-winger John McDonnell MP is preparing a stalking horse leadership challenge - Mail on Sunday
• Writing for the Mail on Sunday, Frank Field threatens to retable his 10p tax amendment if Brown and Darling fail to clarify their compensation package.
• "One of the many perils now facing Labour is that it becomes trapped in a downward spiral. Critics are emboldened; fairweather friends desert; even the stalwarts lose all heart. Party unity will shatter as it becomes every man for himself on the backbenches." - Andrew Rawnsley in The Observer
• "Gordon Brown has to regroup his troops and hammer out a more focused battle plan to win back those trusted supporters who feel betrayed.  As PM in waiting, David Cameron must prove he is more than a smart soundbite and provide policies that are clear and affordable.  The voters have spoken. Their message couldn't be clearer.  The fight to the death is on." - News of the World

Thrasher and Rallings: Thursday's results would produce Tory majority of 126

"We have examined more than 3.5m votes in 1,350 local wards in order to calculate how the parties would have fared if these elections had taken place in every part of the country. This comprehensive analysis has the Tories on 43% (a three-point increase since last year) with Labour on 24% (down two points). The Lib Dems scored 23%, down a single percentage point from last year.  Repeated at a general election, such a result would put the Tories in power with a majority of 126 seats. The number of Labour MPs in the House of Commons would slump from 356 at the last election to just 177. The Liberal Democrats would be left with 55 seats." - The Sunday Times

David Cameron ends the stigma of voting Conservative

"David Cameron still has his detractors, who worry whether there is substance beneath the style.  But his achievement should be recorded: A whole new generation of voters is emerging who were not alive when the Tories were the most formidable vote-winning outfit in history.  They remember only the wilderness years. Now, as Mr Brown enters his political death throes, Mr Cameron has finally shed the stigma of voting Conservative." - Mail on Sunday leader

Francis Maude leads the Tory preparations for office

"Francis Maude, is making his mark. Maude has spent months quietly culling advice from retired permanent secretaries and former ministers on how a Cameron administration could hit the ground running: how to manage civil servants, tackle a 24/7 rolling news culture, navigate freedom of information laws and deliver on promises." - Within an Observer piece reviewing Thursday's elections

"Everything seemed to go so well for the Tories that night back in 2008, when victory in London was a taste of things to come. Then things went disastrously wrong. Our chief political commentator reports from 2012." - John Rentoul in The Independent on Sunday

The role of the London Evening Standard in Boris' victory - Tim Luckhurst in the Independent on Sunday

BNP wins London Assembly seat after scoring 5.3% of vote

"[BNP's Richard Barnbrook] said he would stand up for all Londoners regardless of "colour or identity" as long as "you play part within the identity of this great city".  "People should remain as individuals and belong to the environment they come from or they come into  This is Britain, it is for the British people... it is not for people to enter into this land dictating what will or will not happen to the people that created it and built it over generations." - BBC

> PlayPolitical: BNP's local elections video and Richard Barnbrook of the BNP gives angry speech after being elected to the Greater London Assembly with 5.3% of the vote

 Labour adopt Gwyneth Dunwoody's daughter as their by-election candidate

"Gwyneth Dunwoody's daughter, Tamsin, has been chosen by the Labour Party as its candidate to be Crewe and Nantwich's next MP. She will now fight the May 22 by-election to try and take the seat her mother held for the last 34 years." - Crewe and Nantwich Guardian

> Click here to register to help for the by-election

And finally...

Photographer David Bailey on Nick Clegg: "Telling everyone how many women he's been with, what's that all about?" he asks, referring to Clegg's recent admission that he had slept with "no more" than 30 women. "I mean, do I really want to know what an under-achiever he is?"" - As part of a wider interview for The Sunday Telegraph

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