Tuesday 12th September 2006
5:30pm ToryDiary update: Farage is new UKIP leader
News update:
"Strengthening financial support for families will benefit business and society, according to David Cameron. Speaking at the Working Families conference in London, the Conservative leader laid down his party's guiding principles on its policy on childcare and parenting." - ePolitix
Noon updates
11am Seats and Candidates update: All-women shortlists would bring in the big man
BLOGS
ToryDiary: Pro and anti-war newspapers welcome Cameron's 9/11 speech
Bill Melotti on YourPlatform: The essential need for a Conservative approach to Civil Liberties
100policies: David Simpson recommends that we 'Fund political parties through a flat rate levy per elector with the recipient chosen via a tickbox on the tax return'
WAR ON TERROR
"David Cameron marked the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks by declaring that a Conservative government led by him would not be "America's unconditional associate in every endeavour". The Tory leader distanced himself from President George W Bush's "simplistic" foreign policy shortly after Lady Thatcher said in Washington that Britain must stand shoulder to shoulder with the United States in the fight against terrorism. The former Conservative prime minister said she was "honoured" to have been invited by Vice-President Dick Cheney to join members of the US cabinet at a ceremony in the White House to mark the attacks." - Telegraph
"David Cameron found himself at odds with Baroness Thatcher last night after the Conservative Party leader made a speech criticising Britain’s “slavish” relationship with the United States. While Mr Cameron attacked Tony Blair for his “uncritical” dealings with President Bush, his predecessor used a rare visit to Washington to insist that Britain and America must not be divided over the War of Terror. In a statement released through the White House, Lady Thatcher said: “This heinous attack upon America was an attack upon us all. With America, Britain stands in the front line against Islamist fanatics who hate our beliefs, our liberties and our citizens. We must not falter. We must not fail.” - Times
REDWOOD WILL HAIL LOW TAX IRELAND
"David Cameron will face more pressure to back a low tax agenda this week when the group he set up to look at economic competitiveness publishes its first report. The report has been written by John Redwood, one of the most influential figures on the Tory Right, and will hail the dramatic economic growth of the Irish Republic over the past 15 years. It will argue that the Irish have built their success in attracting foreign investment on low taxes and a good education system – and will stress that Britain needs to learn these lessons." - Telegraph
TORY SCIENCE POLICY
"An interim report from the Tories' Science & Technology policy taskforce, part of David Cameron's economic competitiveness policy review, says the party would turn Labour's existing policy on innovation on its head. It wants to stimulate research and development (R&D) and innovation more effectively, so that the UK can meet the challenge of global competition. The taskforce, led by Ian Taylor, a former science minister, says innovation policy should shift from its current focus on pushing potentially commercial ideas coming out of universities on to business, to encouraging more demand from industry for R&D. This new way of going about things makes sense..." - Natasha Gilbert in The Guardian
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AFTER GREENHAM COMMON
"If the Greenham women’s influence on disarmament was nil, their political effect was marginally greater. With other protesters, they tied the Labour Party to an electorally suicidal anti-nuclear policy for a decade, and debased feminism by associating it with bizarrely traditional sexual stereotypes." - Oliver Kamm in The Times
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