7.30pm LeftWatch: The union that bankrolls Labour wants to disrupt the London Olympics
6pm WATCH: Nadine Dorries MP says only childless and wealthy women tend to prosper in politics
4.30pm MPsETC: Could Irish voters say FU to the Merkozy plan to save the €uro?
4pm Local government:
3.15pm Oliver Colvile MP on Comment: The critics of windfarms are wrong. Renewable energy provides good value for money.
2.30pm Local government: Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh says Government plans for Business Rates too complicated and unclear to work
Noon George Eustice MP on Comment says it's time to transform CAP: "The Common Agricultural Policy takes up 40 percent of the EU budget and has long been regarded by the public as a symbol of bureaucracy gone mad."
Noon ConHomeUSA: Romney pivots from social message, back to economy
10am: Robert Halfon MP on Comment: Taxpayers should be allowed to tour Big Ben for free
ToryDiary: Owen Paterson wants Belfast to have the same low corporation tax as Dublin
Columnist Stephan Shakespeare: Who will frame the political debate in favour of the wealth creators?
Michael Dobbs on Comment: The Lords is currently a great advisory chamber but elect us and we'll become a very different beast
Ryan Bourne on ThinkTankCentral: The CPS share scheme idea is still the least bad alternative, as taxpayers, for disposing of our stake in RBS
MPsETC: Bercow corrects Michael Gove's "Cymryphobia" as "welshed" joins the list of unparliamentary language
Local government: 306 councils agree to freeze or cut Council Tax
Local government update: Number of Tory councils upping council tax increases to FIFTEEN
George Osborne rushes through retrospective legislation to stop Barclays avoiding £500 million of tax – Guardian
"The Treasury moved after a lender, which The Times understands to be Barclays, used legal loopholes to reduce its tax bill. The Government did not name the company involved but said that it was taking action to ensure the payment of more than half a billion pounds of tax, with billions of pounds of future revenue also protected. One of the tax schemes involved the bank buying back its own debt and making a profit on the transaction while not paying corporation tax. The other involved investment funds trying to benefit from tax credits." – Times (£)
Tory MPs' fury as Nick Clegg goes public with his concerns about NHS Bill
Downing Street in knots as it plays down Nick Clegg's NHS concessions – Nick Watt for The Guardian
"There is at first sight something rather puzzling about the deputy prime minister writing a letter calling for his own government's legislation to be amended…" – Nick Robinson
Telegraph leader: "In campaigning against change, the opponents of competition have no convincing alternative. They are simply making the health service’s problems that much harder to address."
Foreigners are to be offered free treatment for HIV on the NHS for the first time under controversial plans backed by ministers – Telegraph
Clegg in feisty form at hearing on Lords reform
"Nick Clegg tried to isolate opponents of Lords reforms on Monday by claiming that protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo would not understand how Britain in the 21st century still had an unelected legislature. He also sent out a briefing to his party pointing out that only 15 countries predominantly use appointments for selecting its upper house "putting Britain in the same league as Jordan, Belize and Burkina Faso." – Guardian
There should be no Lords reform until question of Scottish independence has been addressed – Jesse Norman MP in The Times (£)
At least 50 Tory MPs are expected to rebel against an elected Lords – Times (£)
The Independent says Nick Clegg must be supported in his chance-in-a-generation attempt to modernise the Lords but the FT's leader-writers warn that Clegg hasn't answered fundamental questions about how Lords/Commons relationship will be affected by election.
> Yesterday's ConHome features on Lords reform:
Radical MPs urge George Osborne to shut Whitehall departments, slash red tape and cut business tax – Telegraph
Opinion poll sends conflicting Budget messages
A ComRes poll simultaneously says public want tax cuts for low income workers, want tax cuts targeted on business, not individuals and doesn't want tax cuts at all but more deficit reduction!
The Centre for Economics and Business Research says CUTTING fuel duty would RAISE cash for the Government
"Its report is a direct challenge to Chancellor George Osborne, who has indicated he will end his fuel duty freeze in the coming Budget. It comes as a Sun poll revealed fuel tax is the one most people want to see cut." – The Sun
Cameron is taking power back to Number 10 as he attempts to oversee and craft a government-wide mission – Rachel Sylvester in The Times (£)
Welsh Conservatives replace annual conference with election rally – BBC
"Devo-plus" campaign launched to ensure a "no-to-independence" vote in Scottish referendum leads to more devolution – Scotsman
> "Devo-plus" was the fifth part of ConservativeHome's Majority Manifesto
Gordon Brown faces growing calls to be part of a “dream team” leading the anti-independence campaign in the run-up to the referendum – Scotsman
Nick Clegg remains loyal to the Coalition but Lib Dem activists are pulling away – Mary Riddell in The Telegraph
Austin Mitchell MP: The Lib Dems are helping the Tories to entrench power
"First, the reduction of the Commons to 600 required a total redistribution. That will cost Labour more seats than the Tories (and incidentally the Lib Dems proportionately more than either). Second, Wales and Scotland, fiefdoms of the left, lost more seats than England. Next individual enrolment will disenfranchise sections of the population likely to vote Labour. The final stage is Scottish devolution. Whatever the outcome of the Scottish referendum, home rule or devo max, it will entail either a reduction in Scottish representation at Westminster or a restriction of the ability of Scottish MPs to vote on "English" issues." – Austin Mitchell MP, letter to The Guardian
Grammar schools are better for able pupils than comprehensives – John Redwood
Middle-class liberals should try a spell of unemployment before they criticise workfare – John Bird in The Times (£)
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