Tuesday 2nd September 2008

7.30pm ConservativeInternational: Liam Fox endorses Stephen Harper's re-election bid

7.15pm CFDiary: Tory Bear's second survey on Conservative Future's National Executive

7pm PlayPolitical: ITN report on the Government's economic relief plan

5.15pm David Lidington on CentreRight discusses Sarah Palin: "I think that this episode shows that in the US as in Britain, it is possible, indeed laudable, for people to stand up for family values and good behaviour while accepting that we are all fallible human beings who make mistakes and misjudgements. I think that's why David Cameron's approach strikes such a chord at home."

4.15pm CentreRight:

• Alex Deane wants a procedure for checking judges after they are appointed
• David Lidington's first report from the Republican Convention
• Julia Manning thinks Sarah Palin will withstand the pressure

11am ToryDiary: Cameron pledges proper rest periods for the armed forces

10.30am CentreRight: Andrew Lilico's first impressions of the mortgage rescue plan

ToryDiary: Do the Tories have a Sarah Palin?

Dale Bassett on Platform: "Robocop justice"

David Cameron and William Hague arrive in Afghanistan - BBC

Conservatives remain 16% ahead in new Populus poll - ToryDiary

Tory policy on inheritance tax

"Families will be able to inherit £2 million tax free from their parents under Tory plans to raise the Inheritance Tax threshold, the Daily Telegraph can disclose."

Cameron blasts Brown's "dangerous" emergency measures - Express

Brown to promise first-time buyers in England "free" loans of up to 30% of their home's value  - BBC

"Brown is the loan arranger" - The Sun gives positive treatment to Brown's relaunch

In his Tuesday column for The Daily Telegraph Boris Johnson employs "Damsonomics" to say that we can't be sure what caused our economic difficulties, nor what might put the economy right.

Does Brown dare to reshuffle Darling?

"A limited reshuffle - focused on merging the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland jobs into a single constitutional secretary role - had been pencilled into the No 10 diary for this week. Mr Brown is being urged to postpone it and carry out a wider reshuffle involving Mr Darling. It would be wrong of the Prime Minister to pin the blame for his and the country's difficulties on the Chancellor - and foolish for him to sack someone who knows where the political bodies are buried." - Rachel Sylvester in The Times

Chancellor's grave warning sends pound plunging, pushes up holiday prices and kills off hope of interest rate cut - Daily Mail

Edward Leigh leads questioning of Labour's management of PFI contracts - Telegraph

Labour selects headteacher to fight Glenrothes byelection - Guardian | Tory candidate

John Denham writes to dead schoolgirl for second time - Telegraph

And finally...

"Lord Tebbit 'could have been a hoodie' if his stint doing National Service hadn't knocked him into shape, he has said. The Tory peer, who was known as the Chingford Skinhead during his time in politics, said serving the Armed Forces had given him an outlet for his energy and stopped him getting into trouble as a teenager." - Daily Mail

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Comments

[Dave B]

"Spare a thought for anyone on the Environment beat at the Guardian newspaper. It must be like working for Pravda during the Breznhev era. There, as the economy became ever more dysfunctional, reporters were obliged to pump out ever more absurd stories saluting record productivity and efficiency records. The triumph over capitalism was imminent!

A different time and a different place: but at the Graun, the ideology is "Climate Change" - and the number of narratives permissible is similarly narrow, and rigidly defined from the top. For as regular readers of the paper will know, the climate can only change in one direction: for the worse. Apocalypse is imminent!" The Register