10.30pm ToryDiary: The Guardian guns for Rupert Murdoch… and Andy Coulson
5.30pm Seats and candidates: The twelve candidates for the Norwich North by-election
4.15pm WATCH: New Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth defends UK involvement in Afghanistan
3.45pm Tim Montgomerie on CentreRight: Newsnight's Editor is taking us for fools
1.45pm ToryDiary: George Osborne promises to put Bank of England back in charge of banking supervision
1.30pm Local government: Defection gives the Tories a councillor on Haringey
12.45pm ToryDiary: Low key PMQs with Hague quizzing Harman on spending
12.15pm Local Government: Council farm for sale
Noon Matt Sinclair on CentreRight: Polly Toynbee is wrong, public sector staff are better paid
ToryDiary: 84% of Tory members want Conservatives to give British people a referendum if Lisbon is ratified
Nick Herbert MP on Platform: Rural communities ignored by Labour are crying out to be heard – and the Conservatives have an agenda to revitalise them
Cllr Derek Tipp on Local government: Town Halls should not present contentious claims on global warming as if they were facts
Seats and candidates: The youngest members of the potential next intake of Conservative MPs
WATCH:
Liam Fox sets out how he would oversee a Strategic Defence Review
"A Strategic Defence Review under a Conservative government would follow a logical sequence:
Dr Fox was writing in The Daily Telegraph.
"A strategic review should choose collective security over military retrenchment" – Times leader
David Davis uses parliamentary privilege to suggest Britain colluded in torture of Rangzieb Ahmed
"The true depth of British involvement in the torture of terrorism suspects overseas and the manner in which that complicity is concealed behind a cloak of courtroom secrecy was laid bare last night when David Davis MP detailed the way in which one counter-terrorism operation led directly to a man suffering brutal mistreatment. In a dramatic intervention using the protection of parliamentary privilege, the former shadow home secretary revealed how MI5 and Greater Manchester police effectively sub-contracted the torture of Rangzieb Ahmed to a Pakistani intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), whose routine use of torture has been widely documented." – Guardian | BBC | Parliament blog
David Cameron's first priority must be job cuts in the public sector – Simon Heffer in The Telegraph
"A tax package to raise £70bn ($115bn, €82bn), probably the minimum required to stabilise Britain’s public finances, might put four points on the rate of income tax, take VAT to 20 per cent, freeze personal allowances and tax thresholds, add five points to corporation tax and collect a bit of extra revenue from the usual suspects such as alcohol, petrol and cigarettes. I wouldn’t want to be the political front person for that package. Perhaps the opposition Conservatives should give the finance portfolio back to Kenneth Clarke. In 1997 he lost the election no chancellor would want to lose. Whoever succeeds in 2010 will have won the election no chancellor would want to win." – John Kay in the FT
APCO Chief Sir Hugh Orde savages Tory plans for elected police commissioners – Guardian
Stephan Shakespeare on the Tories' Post-Bureaucratic Age – City AM
Brian Coleman: 'I refuse to pander to the mad, bad and the sad'
"'Only the mad, bad and the sad' are interested in the details of MPs' expenses, said a senior Tory as he refused to publish his own claims. Brian Coleman, who sits on the London Assembly, defended his decision not to publish itemised expenses – even though Mayor Boris Johnson, his advisers, and the 24 other members have all agreed to voluntarily publish their own." – Daily Mail
> Yesterday's ToryDiary: Meet the Conservative politician who is putting up the most brazen opposition yet to transparency on expenses
Eighteen Labour MPs rebel but Government survives 10p tax vote – Sky News
Lord Malloch-Brown is to step down at the end of the month for 'personal and family reasons'
"The Foreign Office minister insisted he still 'greatly admired' Mr Brown and the decision had nothing to do with the 'political situation'." – Daily Mail
Labour must embrace voting reform – Alan Johnson renews his call in an article for The Independent
Pope Benedict XVI condemns 'corruption and illegality' of politicians and businesses on eve of G8 – Telegraph
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