7.15pm WATCH: George Osborne talks to Faisal Islam about the lack of economic growth in Britain and the €urozone
4.15pm WATCH: Cameron: It is for Stephen Hester to decide whether he will accept his bonus from RBS
3.15pm LeftWatch: Boom! Labour concedes principle of regionalised state pay and benefits.
12.15pm ToryDiary: Archbishop of York compares Cameron to dictator on gay marriage
ToryDiary: Has Cameron's EU veto died?
Rehman Chishti MP on Comment: Syrian opposition parties need to unite otherwise Syria faces a bleak future
Local government: Lee Rotherham to stand for Police Commissioner in Lincolnshire
David Cameron will be acting like a “dictator” if he allows homosexual couples to wed, Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu warns
"“Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman,” says Dr Sentamu. “I don’t think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is. It is set in tradition and history and you can’t just [change it] overnight, no matter how powerful you are. We’ve seen dictators do it in different contexts and I don’t want to redefine very clear social structures that have been in existence for a long time and then overnight the state believes it could go in a particular way." – Telegraph
Cameron retreats on veto 'to appease Lib Dems'
78% want the Government to ignore Brussels rules that could entitle European Union migrants to claim welfare benefits in Britain – Express
Eurozone countries 'must show the colour of their money' before IMF bailout funds are used, Osborne warns – Daily Mail | Sun
PM blames Labour for Hester bonus – Guardian
"The Chancellor said the bonus was not a decision for the government but RBS, and added that Mr Hester's bonus would be "a lot less" than what other bank chiefs would be paid. He said: “In the end he was hired after the crash to sort out the problems at RBS. He was asked to shrink – by my predecessor – the size of its balance sheet and the size of its workforce. "He is doing those things and in the end under the arrangement we have created it has got to be up to the board to make a decision on the bonus that he receives." – Guardian
Sun, Mail attack Coalition on RBS bonus
> Yesterday's video: Boris Johnson: "I’m at a loss to justify" Stephen Hester's £1million bonus from RBS
George Osborne: Capitalism is succeeeding in the Far East and it can, again, in the West – FT (£)
Osborne warns against long-term consequences of 50p tax rate
"George Osborne urged business to make the case for the scrapping of the 50% income tax rate as he gave his clearest signal yet of his desire to reduce taxes on the wealthy. The Conservative chancellor told a lunch of British executives in Davos: "I have always said this is a temporary tax. The long-term damage of this tax is potentially quite considerable, and that's why it is temporary." – Guardian
Financial Services Bill is unveiled by Osborne – BBC
"George Osborne on Friday set out details of far-reaching reforms to the regulation of Britain’s financial sector, ranging from plans to put the chancellor in charge in a future economic crisis to a new crackdown on payday loan companies." – FT (£)
Senior GPs come to defence of Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms – Telegraph
Companies running the government’s flagship £5bn back-to-work scheme will have to find work for hundreds of thousands more people than expected – FT (£)
Ken Clarke was last night warned jails could soon run out of space — as the prison population reached 87,668 – Sun
"Overcrowding in prison "warehouses" is causing violence behind bars as tensions soar among inmates, prison officers warned last night. New figures show that the population of Britain's jails has jumped by 1,000 in the past three weeks." – Independent
Cameron and Harzai to sign "enduring strategic partnership" – Express
The mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence says the Coalition is not doing enough to tackle racism – BBC
"Doreen Lawrence has said David Cameron's government is not doing enough to tackle racial prejudice, which continues to blight society, and has warned that spending cuts will hit working-class and black Britons the hardest." – Guardian
Bash the poor and wave the flag – how this Tory trick works – Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian
Chris Huhne to be told he will have to resign if he is charged – Independent
Ed Miliband proposes a different welfare cap for different regions
"A cap on benefits should vary according to the costs of housing in different parts of the country, Labour is to propose. The plan would see the Government’s controversial £26,000 cap on a family’s welfare income increased in and around London and cut in regions such as the North East." – Times (£)
David Miliband is still heartbroken at missing out on Labour's top job. And as Ed flounders, many senior figures are agitating for his return – Independent
Former Scottish First Minister Henry McLeish: 'Devo Max' question will kill off independence – Telegraph
Euthanasia and assisted suicide should be banned in every country in the Continent, the Council of Europe has ruled – Telegraph
Freedom of Information isn’t working. The more we shine the spotlight, the more things hide away in the dark – Matthew Parris in The Times (£)
And finally… Failures of love are not all mine
"The trick in human society is to find the balance between legitimate political agitation for change that you believe would make the world better, and tipping into provocatively aggressive proselytising. It’s correct to say to the wider community: recognise my right to exist, and consider these reforms that might increase human happiness. Campaigning becomes proselytising when those words are followed with: and you must convert to my belief system; you must believe that my view of the world is the only one that is true." – Grame Archer in The Telegraph
> Please use the thread below to provide links to news topics likely to be of interest to ConservativeHome readers and to comment on political topics that haven't been given their own blog. Read our comments policy here.