8.30pm ToryDiary: ZIG! Yesterday, Cameron opposed In-Out referendum. ZAG! Tomorrow, Cameron praises renegotiation referendum
3.15pm ToryDiary: Government orders independent review of inter-banking lending rate abuses
Noon ToryDiary: How we could still be given an in/out EU referendum by David Cameron
Tobias Ellwood MP on Comment: The modern soldier is also an aid worker, a classroom builder, a fireman – as well as a fighter. As the transformation now sweeping the army will help prove.
MPsETC: Song written by David Morris MP performed for Armed Forces Day
Local Government: Cambridgeshire takes action to reduce flooding
WATCH: Allister Heath says he can't defend the bankers this time
David Cameron re-signals his opposition to an In-Out EU referendum. But he doesn't rule out a poll on renegotiation.
Mr Cameron did not rule out some sort of vote on European issues eventually, but insisted that he would not give the British people the option of leaving the EU outright. "I completely understand why some people want an in/out referendum, why they wanted it yesterday, why they want it today,” he said. "Some people just want to get out: I completely understand that but I don't share that view, I don't think that's the right thing to do.” – Daily Telegraph
>Yesterday:
Ed Miliband seeks to outflank Downing Street by calling for a public inquiry on banking
"Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for a public inquiry into banking after a series of scandals in the sector." – BBC
Miliband sings the Red Flag – but just two verses – Daily Mail
>Yesterday:
Lord Lawson says there are too many U-turns
"The U-turn on the charities tax, he said, was worth making because it was a mistake. But the pasties, caravans etc? ‘The other things, if it had been me, I would have carried on with. I think they're perfectly justifiable and the idea that you might be in disarray or retreat is not something that you want anybody to think.’….once decided, certain decisions ought to be adhered to. ‘If I had been in his shoes I would not have deferred the petrol tax. I think it is now essential that, in January, he does do it.’ " – Fraser Nelson Coffee House
Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood President takes oath of office – Sky News
Charles Moore argues that the army is shrinking and "trying to look modern, the Tories played down defence"
"The MoD these days is a demoralised department with too many second-rate officials and little ability to fulfil its historic role as the United Kingdom’s strategic military headquarters. Few politicians today have a background in defence. Many take it for granted. Some are even actively hostile." – Daily Telegraph
>Yesterday on Comment: Housing Minister Grant Shapps MP: Armed forces must be at the front of the housing queue
Government study exposes respondents views on porn – The Independent
No pleasing some people, or rather Sun People: the newspaper names George Osborne as its "villain of the week"
"The Sun was delighted when the Chancellor finally pulled the above U-turn on fuel duty this week. But it was the duplicitousness with which he did it that wins him our weekly wooden spoon. …Osborne then entirely disappeared from view, Macavity-syle, to dispatch woefully under-briefed junior Treasury minister Chloe Smith to be flayed alive on that night’s TV shows, notably by Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman." – The Sun
‘Safety net’ in draft Bill on assisted suicide – The Times (£)
The Guardian profiles the Conservative MP fuel duty campaigners as "The Tory rebels who put principles before party loyalty"
"Nuttall is no bleeding-heart liberal: he's a Tory MP, steeped in an older and more rugged strain of Conservatism than that of his current leader. "I just like to stand up for everybody who believes in free enterprise and freedom of choice and giving people the opportunity to improve themselves, by giving them a choice without government dictating to them," he says. "I never had the chance to go to grammar school, but I am the opposite of all those socialists like my predecessor, who went to Bury grammar school but wanted to abolish it." – The Guardian
Tory peer calls for ban on smoking in cars – Scotsman
Graeme Archer is left angry by Ed Miliband's "depersonalised nostra culpa on immigration"
"The fury arises from the way Labour treated those who voiced disquiet about the rapidity and the extent of the changes. Murmur your concern over primary schools where most children didn’t speak English at home; worse, notice that you were the only native English speaker on your bus – and the Left called you racist." – Daily Telegraph
Britain tops EU asylum list – Daily Mail
Lord Prescott's office lavished spending on hotels and in restaurants all around the world
"Charlie Elphicke, a Conservative MP, said: “These figures show that his office was too casual with taxpayers’ money and now he is standing to be a police commissioner. How do we know he will be effective with the police budget and more careful with public money in future. He needs to explain whether this spending at Links of London and the London Eye was for public or personal benefit.” – Daily Telegraph
>Yesterday on Local government:
Simon Heffer praises David Cameron showing "real Tory values" on eduaction and welfare – Daily Mail
Commons committee calls for it be easier to sack MPs with forced by-elections – BBC
Donations flood in for Romney after Obama court victory – Independent
And finally…
1)"Get me my lawyer! Get me my expensive American lawyer" – Tony Blair interview, Financial Times (£)
2) Could Blair return as Prime Minister? – Guardian
2) Beware his leadership ambitions – Patrick O'Flynn, Daily Express
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