9pm WATCH: Cameron: The NHS' "default setting" will be using patients' data for research
7pm Columnist Anthony Browne: It is in our interest to quietly support the cause of EU treaty renegotiations
5.15pm ToryDiary: Cameron set to deny the British people a vote on huge and imminent changes to the EU Club
5.15pm MPsETC: MPs' reaction to today's news of a new EU treaty to restore confidence in the €urozone
5.15pm WATCH: Bernard Jenkin MP & Nahdhim Zahawi MP discuss the UK's relationship with the EU with Andrew Neil
5pm Philip Booth on Comment: No case for Plan B – lessons from the Great Depression for the Great Recession
3.30pm ToryDiary: Hague says Afghanistan has a "bright future", with or without the Taliban at the discussion table
2pm Nick Pickles on Comment: The Government's NHS proposals do little to address privacy concerns
12.30pm MPsETC: Andrew Bridgen MP discovers that Labour spent £5 million of taxpayers' money on preparations to join the €uro
Noon ToryDiary: Willetts: It's time to join up the research lab and the NHS ward
Noon ConHomeUSA: Today's top Republican and American political news
11am ToryDiary: Egypt's result reminds us why we need Edmund Burke no less than Margaret Thatcher
10am Fiona Hodgson on Comment: Women's rights in Afghanistan are not negotiable
ToryDiary: The £30 billion question: What should we cut next?
Bruce Anderson on our Columnists' page: If you believe fiscal union would work, you must also believe in Santa Claus
Andrew Bridgen MP on Comment: A concrete plan to deal with EU health and safety regulations
Local Government:
WATCH: Iain Duncan Smith: "Work will still pay better than benefits on the balance of things"
Cameron will announce plans for patients to received new drugs before they have completed clinical trails
"The new licensing system will provide access to the latest treatments for life-threatening conditions such as cancer up to a year earlier than at present. Patients with limited treatment options will benefit from the scheme, which will boost Britain’s life sciences industry by allowing the companies that develop innovative medicines to profit from their discoveries more quickly. The initiative, which will go out for public consultation, is part of a package of measures designed to make pharmaceuticals a cornerstone of economic growth, and to ensure that British medical advances are exploited in the UK and not overseas" - Times (£)
David Willetts MP: 'We know how to help smart scientific ideas make the leap from the lab to the world outside'
"We have great biotech and pharmaceutical companies and the NHS still has an enviable reputation. These are great assets, but we do not make the most of them. We must tear down the barriers that stop them working together so that we become the location of choice for the life science companies of the future. Then we can deliver better healthcare and sustainable growth" - Times (£)
Cameron must give the UK a referendum on Europe, says IDS
"Duncan Smith piled the pressure on Cameron saying: ‘The Prime Minister has always said if there is major treaty change … we would have a referendum, and he has never shied away from that … If there are substantial changes that affect Britain’s position, he would go for a referendum because that’s what we said to the British public we would do" - Daily Mail I Telegraph
> Yesterday's ToryDiary: 'Vote for an EU referendum and you'll plunge Britain's economy into chaos'
Thinktank Open Europe says Cameron should use any treaty change to seek a UK “emergency brake” on European Union regulation
“There is a growing divergence between the UK’s economic interests and the slew of regulations coming from Europe,” said Mats Persson, Open Europe’s director. “The eurozone is likely to develop into an increasingly dominant force and push its own agenda.” Mr Perrson said the City could find itself unable to stop damaging legislation, such as short selling bans, by 2014 if the government did not act quickly" - FT
Angela Merkel and Nicholas Sarkozy will hold crucial €urozone crisis talks
"The talks between the leaders of Germany and France are hoped to tie together a financial rescue package of up to €2 trillion (£1.3 trillion), via the European Central Bank, the IMF and the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), ahead of a final summit of all European leaders on Friday" - Telegraph
> Yesterday Columnist Ruth Lea: Merkel's prescription is not enough to prevent the €uro being torn apart
TV channel for the European Parliament labelled "an expensive joke" after costing £7million a year with only 830 viewers per day - Sun
Ahead of a crucial debate led by Dominc Raab MP on extradition laws, there are rumours that the Government is under pressure from the U.S embassy to prevent the motion being passed
"Rumours continue to swirl that Downing Street – under huge pressure from the U.S. Embassy – might attempt a secret operation to prevent the motion being passed. Officially, Number Ten says it is relaxed about the outcome and that MPs can vote with their conscience. But ministers and their aides – including supporters of Mr McKinnon – have been quietly tapped on the shoulder and instructed to vote against the motion. It is hoped that a large turnout of Tory, Lib Dem and Labour MPs in the Commons will scare them off trying to sabotage the vote" - Daily Mail
> Yesterday Dominic Raab MP on Comment: Tomorrow night, MPs can put extradition reform on the agenda
MPs will vote today on whether Speaker should be able to punish Ministers who leak announcements to the media – BBC
Boris Johnson: 'The gospel of Clarkson puts bread on the tables of Britain'
"Until we come up with a better idea, it is the consumerist free-market economy that offers the best hope of generating the taxes that enable us to pay for pensions, welfare and everything else. In that respect Clarkson is not only the king of automotive consumerism; he is helping to pay for the public sector" - Telegraph
Clegg calls for pensioners' benefits to be means tested
"Liberal Democrat ministers pushed for the means-testing of universal benefits to be announced in last week’s Autumn Statement, but were rebuffed by their Tory Coalition partners. Conservative ministers are understood to be “dead set” against any move to water down universal benefits for fear of a popular backlash. Mr Clegg, however, said that he would continue to make the case for richer pensioners to sacrifice their benefits" - Telegraph
The Government is urged to rethink plan to charge single parents fees to obtain child maintenance payments from ex-partners - Independent
In the same interview, Clegg also said that he Government will announce proposals in January to "get tough" on excessive boardroom pay
"Recent figures showed executive pay at Britain's biggest firms rose 50 per cent in the last year, taking the average pay for a FTSE 100 director to just short of £2.7m. These are a "real slap in the face" for workers, many of whom are enduring a pay freeze, Mr Clegg told the BBC. He said there must be greater transparency in pay awards" - Telegraph
SNP plans closer ties with Scandinavia after independence from the UK - Independent
Britain's most senior commander in Afghanistan says the UK had made "an investment in blood" in the country, and should not turn its back now – Guardian
A joint study between the Guardian and the LSE suggests that widespread anger and frustration at the police's engagement in communities, was a major factor in the summer riots – Guardian
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