10.15pm On CentreRight: Melanchthon says Cameron must use German/ French plans for a new EU Treaty to renew the UK's relationship with Brussels Alex Deane asks if it's fair that the BBC isn't getting cut as much as most government departments 10pm ToryDiary: The state of public opinion on the eve of 'Axe Wednesday' 8.30pm […]
6.30pm LeftWatch: In just one day Alan Johnson offends Britain's biggest businesses, refuses to take journalists' questions and adds £10bn to Labour's fiscal black hole 3.15pm ToryDiary: The Coalition's four defences of its deficit reduction strategy 12.15pm WATCH: Theresa May explains how she plans to keep Britain safe from terror and other security threats Noon […]
8.30pm ThinkTankCentral: Adam Smith Institute identifies £90 billion of privatisation possibilities 4.45pm WATCH: Republican candidate accused of wanting to kill cuddly animals in new low for US campaigning 4.15pm ToryDiary: Liam Fox dismisses newspaper smears as the "rufty-tufty" of politics 2pm WATCH: William Hague tells Adam Boulton that Labour made £38bn of unbudgeted defence commitments […]
7.30pm ToryDiary: New ComRes poll solidifies Tory lead, and backs Cameron/Osborne over Miliband/Johnson to turn the economy around Updated at 10.15pm with numbers from tomorrow's YouGov poll 5.30pm John Moss on CentreRight: Re-introducing the idea of negative income tax 4pm LeftWatch: Ed Miliband pocketed a £20k pay-off for losing his Cabinet salary – despite being […]
7.30pm ToryDiary: Lord Young publishes his "common sense" review of health and safety legislation, promising to "free businesses from unnecessary bureaucratic burdens" 5.15pm Andrew Lilico on CentreRight: "Over the longer term, child benefit in its previous form as a flat-rate tax allowance must surely be abolished. Since it has now been redefined as a welfare […]
9.30pm ToryDiary: Boris Johnson unanimously re-selected as London Mayoral candidate for 2012 5.30pm Thomas Cawston on CentreRight: How to scale back welfare spending – and close the deficit 5pm ToryDiary: Cameron's seven vulnerabilities: (3) People don't know what the Coalition is trying to achieve 4.45pm Peter Aldous MP in Parliament: The future of the inshore […]
6.45pm WATCH: Highlights of Ed Miliband's PMQs debut 5.30pm ToryDiary: The Coalition is changing the Liberal Democrats more than the Liberal Democrats are changing the Coalition. Discuss… 2.30pm Local government: Pickles scraps LAAs – and slams Islington for paying invoices twice 12.45pm Alex Deane on CentreRight: Is YOUR MP part of a move to control […]
9pm LeftWatch: The Liberal Democrats' remarkable u-turn on tuition fees 7.15pm WATCH: Outside his home, ready to bike to work, David Willetts talks to BBC reporter about tuition fees 5pm Parliament: David Nuttall MP explains why he is introducing a Ten Minute Rule Bill to relax the smoking ban 4pm Parliament: Vince Cable tells Commons […]
8.30pm WATCH Graham Stuart, the Education Select Committee's Conservative Chairman, on the Government's student finance plans Joan Bakewell: How I tried to send back my winter fuel payment 8.15pm ThinkTankCentral: The Social Market Foundation proposes a radical new student finance model 7.30pm Local Government: Katherine Birbalsingh's conference speech 6.15pm Jonathan Isaby on CentreRight: Andrew Marr […]
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7.45pm Melanchthon on CentreRight: Continuous assessment versus exams 3.45pm ToryDiary: A new deal on higher education funding will probably see compromises from Conservatives and, particularly, Liberal Democrats 1.15pm WATCH: One minute highlights of Ann Widdecombe dancing the Salsa 1pm LeftWatch: Millionaires should get child benefit, says Ed Miliband ToryDiary: Cross-party group of peers, led by […]
8pm ToryDiary: New ICM opinion poll gives the Tories a post-conference bounce, as Vince Cable rules out "pure" graduate tax 6.30pm Charles Tannock MEP on CentreRight on Pakistan: a state perilously close to the edge 5.45pm LeftWatch: A rolling blog of junior shadow appointments opens with reports that Diane Abbott will be shadow public health […]
9pm WATCH: Philip Hammond on Alan Johnson's appointment as Shadow Chancellor 5.45pm ToryDiary: The No To AV campaign had a good week in Birmingham 5.15pm Local Government: Congratulations to Caroline Flint on becoming Shadow Communities Secretary 5pm WATCH: Ed Miliband's new Shadow Cabinet 4.30pm Jeremy Brier on CentreRight: Judge Bathurst-Norman is reprimanded for grotesque anti-Israel […]
8.15pm LeftWatch: Shadow Cabinet election results in – Ex-Cabinet ministers Bradshaw, Hain and Woodward all fail to be elected Updated at 8.30pm with numbers showing that Yvette Cooper topped the ballot and at 9pm with full figures for all candidates 5.30pm ToryDiary update: CCHQ confirms that party membership has dropped to 177,000 4pm ToryDiary: An […]
10.30pm ToryDiary: Tory membership down by 80,000 (one-third) since Cameron became Tory leader 9.30pm WATCH: ITN's three minutes of highlights of David Cameron's speech to Tory Conference William Hague says that Britain's sovereign parliament can undo what it has given to Europe 9pm ToryDiary: Mixed reaction from the blogosphere to Cameron's big speech 6pm ToryDiary: […]