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REACTION & COMMENTARY TO TODAY'S PMQS

  • Daniel Hodges: "The dole queues are lengthening. Ed Miliband’s going to need to do better if he wants to avoid joining them" - Telegraph
  • Lloyd Evans: 'The lesson from today's PMQs? Unemployment makes Cameron uncomfortable' - Spectator
  • James Forsyth: "Downing Street is painfully aware that one PMQs in four is going to be about unemployment" - Spectator
  • Harry Cole: 'Dismal Miliband would sail us on to the rocks' - The Commentator
  • Daniel Knowles: "Even Labour’s unions backers don’t seem to understand it: they think that Labour has embraced Tory cuts. And that, on balance, made today’s performance a victory for David Cameron" - Telegraph
  • SkinnerToby Young: 'It wasn't 'ageist' of David Cameron to call Dennis Skinner a 'dinosaur' - Telegraph

KEN CLARKE ANNOUNCES THE SCRAPPING OF THE GIBSON INQUIRY INTO BRITISH COMPLICITY IN TORTURE

  • The inquiry will be brought to "a conclusion", says Clarke. There "now appears no prospect of the Gibson Inquiry being able to start in the foreseeable future" - Telegraph
  • Clarke promises another judge-led inquiry into claims by two Libyans once police investigations are completed - Guardian
  • 'Clarke abandons Gibson torture inquiry' - Telegraph

UNEMPLOYMENT AT A 17 YEAR HIGH

  • GraylingChris Grayling admits that unemployment is too high, and that getting people back into work is a priority for the Government - Telegraph
  • Figures released today reveal an 8.4% rise in unemployment to 2.68 million unemployed - Channel  4 News
  • Unemployment rises to a 17 year high - Telegraph I FT
  • Daniel Knowles: "George Osborne needs to do something. At the moment, whether consciously or not, he appears to have made exactly the same decision that his predecessor made: high unemployment is the price worth paying to get the deficit down" - Telegraph

€UROZONE CRISIS

  • Europe'UK faces request for £19bn as IMF boosts bailout fund to $1tn' - Guardian
  • Cameron holds talks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti - Telegraph
  • The €uro must not be a factor for disintegration says Monti - Wall Street Journal
  • Monti will hold meetings with financiers and investors on his trip to London - Reuters
  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: 'The €uro is pushing Italy into recession' - Telegraph

ED MILIBAND'S LEADERSHIP

TALK OF A CABINET RESHUFFLE

  • Ed Davey, Jeremy Browne or David Laws could replace Chris Huhne in a reshuffle, if he leaves Cabinet - Evening Standard

BORIS ISLAND

  • BoriscamAn airport in the Thames Estuary would be "environmentally irresponsible" says Lib Dem MP Norman Baker - Telegraph
  • Benedict Brogan: 'Coalition deal on Boris Island Airport threatened by Nick Clegg flip-flop' - Telegraph
  • Dave Hill: 'Will Londoners warm to Boris's fantasy airport island?' - Guardian
  • Michael White: "We shouldn't laugh at grandiose ideas just because they're a bit mad. But you have to wonder about the cost-benefits" - Guardian
  • Peter Hoskin: "Even the very prospect of Boris Island is a triumph for the Mayor, and not least because Cameron and George Osborne were previously opposed to it. It also says much about the more general shift in attitude of those Tories in government" - Spectator
  • Michael Hanlon: 'Final call for Heathrow airport, but will 'Boris Island' ever get off the ground?' - Daily Mail

OTHER TORY & POLITICAL NEWS

  • StpaulsCourt grants the City of London the right to evict St. Pauls protestors - FT
  • 'Barclays puts up £1.25m for parents starting free schools' - Guardian
  • Cristina Odone: 'If we force midwives to assist an abortion against their conscience we are no better than the Taliban' - Telegraph
  • SNP MSP Joan McAlpine: 'I'm not anti-English – but the coalition has hijacked Scotland's referendum' - Guardian
  • MPs call for a new gang murder law - BBC
  • Neil O'Brien: "If DECC (Department for Energy & Climate Change) is to substantiate their criticism, they must really publish and explain their own estimate of the full cost of renewable energy subsidies on households" - Telegraph
  • Graeme Archer: 'Elderly and home alone' - Telegraph
  • Roger Helmer MEP threatens to withdraw his resignation - BBC
  • Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg calls for Somerset to have its own time zone - BBC

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