11.30pm ToryDiary: Five reflections on an incredible day
6.15pm Peter Franklin on CentreRight: Brace yourself! A Guardian journalist has used Thatcher's "no such thing as society" quote in context!
6pm ToryDiary: 65% of Tory members "inspired" by David Davis' move
5pm Samuel Coates on CentreRight: Should we call a motion of no confidence in the Government?
3.30pm ToryDiary: Tories will repeal 42 days says Dominic Grieve
2.45pm ToryDiary: SPECIAL SURVEY ON 42 DAYS AND DAVID DAVIS' RESIGNATION.
1pm ToryDiary: David Davis to resign to force by-election on 42 days
12.30pm ToryDiary: Cameron Direct to be webcasted
11.45am Mark Field MP on CentreRight: "For rural Conservative MPs the closure of the local Post Office has been marvellous ammunition with which to berate the beleaguered government. But what is our Party going to do about it when we get into power within the next two years?"
11.15am CentreRight: Simon Chapman challenges the Conservative Party to campaign in Northern Ireland
10.15am ToryDiary: "Is there any policy that would most help you in your fight to win your seat that hasn't yet been introduced?"
10am Alex Deane on CentreRight: "The solution to the paedophilia problem is treatment for the non-offending paedophile and extraordinarily harsh sentences for the offending paedophile. The solution is not effective house arrest for all children at all times."
Parliament: Lords Brittan, Howe and Patten disagree with Conservative support for referendum on Lisbon
Damon Lambert on Platform: Time to throw a bone to Black Dog - ending the stigma against people with mental illness
Graeme Archer on CentreRight: "Too much blog-posting is anonymous spite, and too many blog writers (that is, people who dare to write down what it is that they believe, in their own name) are attacked with a venom unimaginable were the interaction to take place face to face."
- Stormy scenes in Commons as Government wins on 42 days
- CBS' Katie Couric attacks the "sexism" that Hillary Clinton faced in her bid to be President
David Davis would have resigned from shadow cabinet if he had been forced to vote for 42 days
"David Davis is said to have told Mr Cameron that he would rather resign than support the Government’s efforts to extend the period of pre-charge detention beyond 28 days. George Osborne and Michael Gove feared that the Tories risked being painted as “soft on terrorism” but were overruled after a series of private meetings between the two former rivals." - Times
"A desperate Gordon Brown won his battle last night to let police hold terrorist suspects for 42 days without charge, but was forced to rely on the support of the Democratic Unionists and a string of extraordinary concessions to his backbenchers to save the vote, and possibly his premiership." - Guardian
Ann Widdecombe was only Tory rebel - Telegraph
"We must hope we will NEVER need to detain a suspect for 42 days. But Gordon Brown rightly argued that now is the time to act — in a period of calm debate, not in the wake of a national catastrophe. It would have been deeply irresponsible to wait until Britain was in deadly peril before realising 28 days was not long enough." - The Sun Says
> An apology for the timing of our 42 days editorial
The Spectator questions Caroline Spelman on nannygate
"As far as Conservative party chairman Caroline Spelman is concerned, the nature of the secretarial duties supposedly performed by her former nanny during 1997/98 seem to get murkier by the day. It is not enough for her to excuse herself by saying it was all an innocent mistake: she could have put the matter to rest by offering to pay back, with interest, the money she saved through the arrangement. By failing to do so she has prolonged her own agony and helped to keep a negative story about the Conservatives in the press for several days." - The Spectator leader
Tory preparations for government
Does David Cameron want to lead "a pedestrian government that wins by default or a radical government that wins by acclaim"? Fraser Nelson in The Spectator looks at whether the Conservatives have the personnel or policies for government.
Tory candidate in Henley accused of hypocrisy on greenbelt - Guardian
Britain needs a new vision for the state
"What is required is a rethink of a kind that has not been attempted in a quarter of a century: what is the state, and what do we expect it to do for us? We should start with this: it should be smaller, more efficient and encourage other providers to enter the arena of public service. What might be termed the no-man's land between the public and private sectors, which has expanded so much, needs cleared. These public bodies and quangos are rolling in funds, and have battalions of communications experts and consultants, and super-looking websites. They are trained to use the language of the market, though they are really not engaged in market activities." - Iain Martin in The Telegraph
Bjørn Lomborg tells James Delingpole why action on global warming shouldn't be our top priority
"It’s true that in the battle between exciting problems and boring problems we are defenders of the boring problems,’ agrees Lomborg, when I suggest that polar bears on melting ice caps tug the heartstrings far more effectively than flyblown African urchins. ‘Our uphill task is to try to show that problems involving the greatest pictures and the cutest animals are not necessarily the most pressing issues." - The Spectator
EU warns Britain over budget deficit - Daily Mail
Rhodri Morgan to see if Wales can get a spot at UN - Western Mail
Obituary of Peter Thurnham, Conservative MP who defected to the LibDems - Independent
Tax cheat phoneline is flooded with malicious calls and allegations - BBC
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