7.30pm WATCH: Vince for leader! Coalition with Labour in 2015! Higher taxes! Meet the Lib Dem Councillors 4pm LeftWatch: Further evidence that Ed Balls wants the economy to fail, so he can succeed 1.45pm ToryDiary: "The Swiss story is precisely what British eurosceptics need. We must put forward a positive, viable vision for our future without the […]
4pm ToryDiary: "This proposal for a plastic bags tax is a cynical, gimmicky piece of green wash." A plastic bag tax would hit the poor and small shops but wouldn't help the environment 2pm Brian Monteith on Comment: Scottish Conservatives facing a humiliation 1pm MPsETC: Lorraine Fullbrook announces she is standing down as MP for […]
4.30pm Alex Morton on Comment: How to give retail the power to compete Noon ToryDiary: "Barker's stress on competition is a reminder that while Conservatives can have spikily different views about the causes of climate change and pace of decarbonisation, they agree about the role of competition." An attack on climate change sceptics by Greg […]
8pm WATCH: Boris tells Labour London Assembly member Andrew Dismore to "Get Stuffed" 6pm Michael Fallon MP on Comment: How our share sales plan will boost Royal Mail and secure the universal service 5.30pm LeftWatch: "A year ago, I imagine Plan B was pretty popular, but now he's off the playlist for obvious reasons." We present […]
11pm MPsETC: Read the full text of Grant Shapps' letter to the UN Secretary-General in protest at their biased Housing investigator 4pm Peter Wilding on Comment: "Europhobes will of course ignore all this. For them the rhetoric is sexier than the reality. Butthe fact is that the British Government has a serious reform plan, has […]
7.45pm WATCH: Pro-HS2 campaign releases new video laying claim to the Victorian engineering tradition 6.15pm Eric Pickles MP on Comment: "For the first time troubled families are being shown a bit of tough love. For too long the system allowed them to be cuddled into the system, giving the most vulnerable no obvious exit from the cycle […]
7pm WATCH: Clips from Cameron's and Osborne's statements today… David Cameron: "A political settlement is the only way to a stable, inclusive and democratic Syria" The economy is "turning a corner", says George Osborne 5pm ToryDiary: More evidence emerges that young voters are shifting to the right – this time on the welfare state 2pm […]
6.15pm WATCH: A pair of clips from earlier today… The G20 discussions about Syria were "heavy going", says Hague There's "no simple solution" to the A&E situation, argues Anna Soubry 1.30pm On Comment, Laura Perrins asks: What is a ‘sex expert’ and where can I find one? "The point is, that this area is just too […]
3.30pm International: What does Abbott's win mean for Cameron? Noon ToryDiary: "Before the G20, we were already the second largest supplier of aid to Syrians, committing a package of assistance worth almost £350 million. Cameron announced at the summit that total UK funding for assistance in Syria and neighbouring states will rise to £400 million." […]
5.30pm WATCH: Cameron's patriotic speech set to music, courtesy of Guido 4.45pm Adrian Hilton on Comment: Why Number 10 is wrong to pull Ministers from the Windsor Tory Renewal Conference 4pm MPsETC: Candidate applications open for five more seats 3.15pm James Frayne on Comment: Where the Tory campaigning operation is succeeding, and where it's lacking 3pm ToryDiary: […]
6pm WATCH: IDS: "I lost faith in the ability of my civil servants to manage this programme" 4.30pm MPsETC: We need more social entrepreneurs as Tory MPs: Toby Young must do his duty 3.15pm George Bathurst on Comment: Cameron's defeat in the Syria vote shows how urgently Conservative Renewal is needed 2.45pm ToryDiary: Michael Gove […]
5.30pm ToryDiary: Conservative members still want the Coalition to end shortly before the election (and are opposed to the idea of another afterwards) 4.30pm ToryDiary: After the summer bounce, the autumn lull – our latest Cabinet league table shows little meaningful change from the last 3pm On ToryDiary, Andrew Gimson's PMQs sketch returns after the summer recess: Both […]
10pm ToryDiary: What Britain can do to help Syrians 6.15pm We end the afternoon with two opposing points of view on the Lobbying Bill: Alun Cairns MP and Rob Wilson MP defend the Bill on Comment: Sense and nonsense on the Lobbying Bill – a response to ConservativeHome and others ToryDiary: Unclear, riven with unintended consequences and open […]
6.30pm WATCH: The situation would have to change "very significantly", says Philip Hammond, for there to be a second Syria vote 5.30pm On Comment, Andrew Lilico says that, for constitutional reasons, William Hague should resign over the Syria vote: "The government lost the vote on its Syria policy. That military action was clearly a foreign policy, rather […]
6pm WATCH: The late Sir David Frost interviews Baroness Thatcher, 1995 5.15pm Benedict Rogers on Comment: David Cameron walks tall, but was failed by pygmies 2.30pm ToryDiary: Gove's passion: for schools, Syria – and democracy everywhere 12.15pm MPsETC: Reshuffle speculation, what reshuffle speculation? ToryDiary: "If MPs have the power to make such important decisions, they will have to grow […]