7pm WATCH: William Hague expels Gaddafi's diplomats
4.45pm WATCH: One year until the London 2012 Olympics
3.15pm International: Former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar urges the EU to "stop smashing the club rules" and return to fiscal conservatism
1.15pm WATCH: William Hague recognises the National Transitional Council as the sole governmental authority in Libya
1pm ToryDiary: Tests by the Department for Work and Pensions find many claiming sickness benefits are fit to work
Noon Stuart Andrew MP on Comment: Why the Core Cities need High Speed Rail
Noon ConHomeUSA: All the latest on the American debt ceiling crisis
11.30am WATCH: Time is running out for next week's deadline to raise the US debt ceiling
10.30am ToryDiary: Is Boris right? Should Osborne cut taxes? Updated with Boris' praise for Osborne on Radio 5 Live
ToryDiary: Is Boris right? Should Osborne cut taxes?
Anthony Browne on Comment: Time for European localism
ThinkTankCentral: Three updates to ConservativeHome's growth manifesto:
Greg Clark MP on Local government: We need a new generation of leaders in local and national government with the courage to face up to our deepest problems
International: Is it really crazy to say 'stop the spending'? Ryan Streeter defends US Republicans from Vince Cable's attack
Gazette: Owen and Rose Paterson will raise £50,000 for good causes in world's longest horse race
Economic growth stalls - BBC
Office for National Statistics says growth figures hit by the royal wedding, unseasonably warm weather and the impact of Japan's tsunami – The Independent
"The UK economy is still smaller than it was when it entered the recession and is unlikely to return to the peak output levels of 2008 before the year 2013, breaking all records in the past century for the length of a slump." – The Independent
> Yesterday on ToryDiary: So, the economy grew by 0.2%. Four reactions to those numbers
Osborne promises tax cuts for business to fire up sluggish economy – Daily Mail
> Yesterday WATCH: Osborne says Britain is growing, is creating jobs and is a safe haven in a global debt storm
It is time for George Osborne to take bold steps in order to bump-start the economy – Daily Telegraph editorial
> Yesterday on ThinkTankCentral: Here you go, George; A Growth Manifesto
Boris Johnson tells George Osborne to cut National Insurance and 50p tax
"His demand came amid growing pressure on George Osborne to develop new policies to boost economic growth. The Daily Telegraph disclosed that there was impatience among No 10 advisers, who wanted the Treasury to be more imaginative in kick-starting the economy." – Daily Telegraph
City AM's Allister Heath praises Boris' call for tax cuts, and says: "Johnson is playing a clever game: his economics are far more optimistic, pro-growth and imbued with supply-side understanding than Osborne’s. Johnson is sounding more like a Ronald Reagan on tax; Osborne is more of a traditional fiscal conservative."
Benedict Brogan: The push for growth will now focus on tax
"The Chancellor welcomes the demands for him to deliver growth as a useful lever to force action from other departments. But he is the one with the best hand to play, and the focus will now be on tax – in particular, on scrapping the 50p rate, which, when National Insurance is taken into account, pushes the marginal rate above 60p and makes Britain one of the most punitive places for wealth in the European Union." – Benedict Brogan, in the Daily Telegraph
Allister Heath: Budget deficit reduction not to blame for lack of growth
"This year’s planned £20bn reduction in the budget deficit, which will probably end up being closer to £13bn, is the absolute minimum needed to show Britain’s creditors that the government is serious. It is astonishing that some economically illiterate commentators are calling on Britain “to pay its debts down more slowly” as a result of yesterday’s figures – the truth is that the debt pile is still rocketing, albeit at a slightly less rapid rate." – Allister Heath, in City AM
> Mark Field MP on yesterday's Comment: Britain's essential deficit reduction programme can only succeed if much more is done to promote growth
Toys from Versace and an iPad from Arnold Schwarzenegger are among gifts given to the PM – Daily Telegraph
Rupert Murdoch's chiefs met Cabinet ministers 100 times
"The close links between the Cabinet and Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-hit empire were laid bare last night by documents detailing almost 100 meetings since last year’s election. George Osborne and Michael Gove feature most prominently in a list of meetings between ministers and News International executives rushed out in the wake of the phone hacking controversy." – Daily Mail
"On two occasions, James Murdoch and former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks were given confidential defence briefings on Afghanistan and Britain's strategic defence review by the Defence Secretary, Liam Fox." – The Independent
Daily Mail editorial condemns the government's new stance on Gaddafi
"This week, after more than four months of bombing by RAF jets, Gaddafi remains stubbornly in power, and the Prime Minister is staging a humbling retreat. The tyrant must relinquish control, Downing Street now says, but can remain in the country he has brutalised over the past four decades. … What is most worrying is the lack of political judgment this debacle has exposed. First Mr Cameron ignored warnings – not least from this paper – that it was a mistake to make an open-ended commitment to Libya when our military resources were already so stretched." – Daily Mail
Home Office resists call to re-classify far-right UK group
"The Home Office is resisting calls to label the English Defence League as a proscribed organisation despite campaigners’ claims to have found new evidence linking the group with Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far right terror suspect." – FT (£)
High-speed rail ‘could create 400,000 jobs’
"Politicians, councillors and economists have thrown their weight behind an economic analysis of the benefits of high-speed rail that claims today that 400,000 jobs could be created in cities outside London." –The Times (£)
Wellbeing index gets the go ahead
"Government plans to rate happiness in the UK have been given the go-ahead, following a positive response from the public. Statisticians have announced that Britain's first Well-being Index indicators will be unveiled in the autumn, followed by annual life satisfaction ratings in July 2012." - Daily Telegraph
Daniel Finkelstein on nudge theory: If people are subtly persuaded to act more honestly or helpfully, it’s not only the Treasury that will be better off
"The right criticism is not that the Government is taking all this behaviour stuff too seriously. It is that it is not taking it seriously enough, moving fast enough, doing enough." – Daniel Finkelstein, in the Times (£)
School called 'brilliant' by David Cameron faces cheat probe over exams – Daily Mirror
Mrs Thatcher's Hillsborough papers must be released, government told - The Guardian
National Trust warns planning changes could tear up countryside - The Guardian
> Yesterday on Local government: National Trust attacks Government's planning changes
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Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi seen at pro-Gaddafi rally in Tripoli - The Guardian
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