Thursday 7th September 2006
10.30pm update: Andrew Stephenson selected for Pendle
3PM TORYDIARY UPDATE:
TONY BLAIR CONFIRMS HE'LL BE GONE IN 12 MONTHS
1.45pm ToryDiary update: Rising anti-Semitism highlighted by MPs
According to the Evening Standard's Londoner's Diary David Cameron is GQ's Politician Of The Year (click to enlarge) >>>
"David Cameron paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi as he rounded off a trip to India. The Tory leader scattered rose petals over the Raj Gahat memorial in New Delhi, which celebrates the revered leader's legacy." - Sky News. Also see the latest entry on David Cameron's India blog.
BLOGS
Platform: George Osborne submits his final diary entry from his India trip
100policies.com: John Hayward thinks that More international aid should be channeled through civil society organisations
Mark Clarke on the CF Diary: What can we learn from other centre-right parties?
LABOUR MELTDOWN
FT graphic on the race to succeed TB >>>
The Sun reveals Brown's demands of Blair:
- A leadership election after Christmas;
- Silencing Alan Milburn and Stephen Byers;
- Close co-operation with Blair on transfer of power to Brown.
"The Conservatives lost their grip on power in the 1990s, when their various factions decided that they wanted to defeat each other more intensely than they wanted to defeat the Labour party. The political events of the past week suggest that Labour has now fallen into the same trap." - Gavyn Davies in The Guardian
BLAIR'S FAREWELL TOUR TO INCLUDE SONGS OF PRAISE
"When Blair appears on Songs of Praise, the first hymn should be Now thank we all our God." - Letter to The Telegraph
TORIES MAY CHARGE FOREIGN LORRIES
"Proposals to make overseas lorries pay for using British roads were announced by the Conservatives yesterday. Shadow Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the plans were a response to the increasing number of UK haulage firms going bust because of competition from companies based elsewhere in Europe." - Birmingham Post
NIRJ DEVA JOINS RACE TO BECOME UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
"A Conservative MEP for South East England is seeking to win a new vote — to become the world’s top diplomat. Nirj Deva, proclaiming himself a “global personality”, said that he had been formally nominated by Fiji for the post of UN Secretary-General, though the Fijuan UN mission said that it had no knowledge of this." - Times
OTHER NEWSLINKS
Alan Duncan has launched a business aid review - ePolitix.com
"Does social enterprise give supporters of free markets any problems? The answer to this question is no. As David Cameron said in his Chamberlain lecture, real local democracy, widespread voluntary action and social enterprise are part of a new common ground in public policy." - Graham Mather on social enterprise in The Guardian
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