First Rochester & Strood poll puts Reckless nine points ahead
‘David Cameron faced a second by-election blow last night after a new survey suggested Ukip’s latest Tory MP defector Mark Reckless is on course for victory in Rochester. A Survation poll for The Mail on Sunday shows that Mr Reckless is nine points ahead of the Tories, and that Nigel Farage’s fans are not put off by the Prime Minister’s warning that voting Ukip will result in Ed Miliband winning power.’ – Mail on Sunday
- Carswell scents victory – Sunday Times (£)
- On the front line in Clacton – The Independent on Sunday
- High expectations could be a threat to Farage – Adam Boulton, Sunday Times (£)
- Arron banks tells his side of the story – Sunday Times (£)
- Plans to woo other defectors – Sun on Sunday (£)
- We live in weird times – Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph
>Today: ToryDiary: Five reasons Rochester and Strood can be won
>Yesterday: ToryDiary: Is UKIP set to damage Labour more than the Conservatives?
Alan Henning’s brother-in-law accuses government of inaction
‘The family and friends of Alan Henning, the British hostage murdered by terrorists in Syria, have accused the government of doing too little to save his life. Colin Livesey, Henning’s brother-in-law, said he was “angry” at the government. He claimed that it could have done more to save both Henning and David Haines.’ – Sunday Times (£)
- Sunni tribes must help us in this war – Liam Fox, Sunday Telegraph
- Generals urge government to stop Gulf states funding ISIS – Sunday Telegraph
- Miliband under pressure to support strikes in Syria – Sunday Telegraph
- Libyan militants release British teacher – Mail on Sunday
- British jihadists stuck in Turkey – Sunday Times (£)
Editorials
- An evil act that should rally muslims against ISIS – Sunday Times Leader (£)
- Time for troops on the ground – The Sun on Sunday Says (£)
- Miliband’s position is baffling – Sunday Telegraph
Birmingham conference leaves Tories feeling bullish
‘What a turnaround. The Tories arrived in Birmingham reeling from the double body blow of a sex scandal and another MP defecting to Ukip. But they left with one Cabinet Minister confidently crowing: ‘We’re going to win the next election, and we’ve just shown you how.’’ – James Forsyth, Mail on Sunday
- How to turn a conference bounce into an election victory – Sunday Times Leader (£)
- We are the tax-cutters – Grant Shapps, Sunday Express
- Talk up the optimism, Prime Minister – Camilla Cavendish, Sunday Times (£)
- Advice for MPs to facilitate anonymous donations – Sunday Times (£)
- Marr: Boris is a true star – Sun on Sunday (£)
Labour donors, MPs and peers lay into Miliband as Conservative poll lead holds
‘Ed Miliband was accused of taking Labour “back to the 1970s” last night as a new poll confirmed the Tories had jumped into the lead in the race to win the next election. MPs and peers rounded on the Labour leader as today’s YouGov poll for The Sunday Times put the Tories on 36%, two points ahead of Labour, with Ukip on 13% and the Lib Dems on 7%.’ – Sunday Times (£)
- Ed even scares his own party – Louise Mensch, Sun on Sunday (£)
- This election is a bare-knuckle fight – Janet Daley, Sunday Telegraph
- Labour leader opens handover talks with Downing Street officials – Sun on Sunday (£)
- Standing up for the rights of leftie Tristrams – Tristram Hunt, The Observer
Lib Dems 1) Clegg lays into Cameron, ‘a rich man’s Farage’
‘The Lib Dems sought to frighten voters off a majority Tory government last night by evoking a nightmarish image of Britain if David Cameron ruled alone. Party leader Nick Clegg depicted a ‘diminished and divided’ nation out of the EU, the economy ‘halted in its tracks’. In a wounding attack, he forecast David Cameron turning ‘trapped between being a poor man’s Margaret Thatcher and a rich man’s Nigel Farage’.’ – Mail on Sunday
- A new Coalition could still work – Matthew d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph
- Danny Alexander: The recovery is down to me – Sun on Sunday (£)
- Cable sidelined – Sunday Telegraph
Lib Dems 2) What is the point of the junior Coalition partners?
‘If the Lib Dems didn’t currently exist, it is doubtful many people would see the need to invent them in their present form. They continue to sing the same tired old tunes of the 1980s and 1990s, refusing to accept the tastes of their audience have changed beyond recognition. They come across as an analogue party in a digital world…If he continues on his present path, then in a flash, Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems could vanish altogether.’ – Mark Littlewood, Mail on Sunday
- Clegg discusses his thick skin – Mail on Sunday
- Tessa Munt poses with Cameron on Lib Dem leaflet – James Forsyth, Mail on Sunday
- Two thirds of Clegg’s candidates don’t mention him – Guido Fawkes, Sun on Sunday (£)
Raab: End the creeping powers of the ECHR
‘The convention was a laudable effort to bind European nations, ravaged by two world wars, to bedrock standards of decency. Churchill backed the plan. But, like the Labour government that ratified the convention, he shuddered at the thought of a European court rewriting British law…Those fears were borne out. An international court, set up to watch for any reversion to the barbarism of war and dictatorship, is now usurping the prerogative of elected parliaments.’ – Dominic Raab MP, Sunday Times (£)
- This is extremism – Nick Cohen, The Observer
- German cabinet pledge to help Britain stay in the EU – Sunday Times (£)
- Eurozone ‘domed to decade of crises’ – Sunday Telegraph
>Yesterday: ToryDiary: International institutions should not equate membership with morality
IDS: Control immigration or we could leave the EU
‘Mr Duncan Smith sets out his ambition for changing the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union; warns that unchecked migration can cause “resentment” leading to “civil unrest”; says supporters of the UK Independence Party risk delivering a Labour government; and declares himself a fan of Jane Austen and the controversial American rapper Eminem.’ – Sunday Telegraph
- Plan to shift benefits from the better off to the poor – Sunday Times (£)
- White Dee set to marry – The Sun on Sunday (£)
Police use terror powers to identify journalists’ sources – again
‘Police used anti-terrorism powers to secretly spy on The Mail on Sunday after shamed Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne falsely accused journalists of conspiring to bring him down. Detectives sidestepped a judge’s agreement to protect the source for our stories exposing how Huhne illegally conspired to have his speeding points put on to his wife’s licence. Instead they used far-reaching powers under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) – originally intended to safeguard national security – to hack MoS phone records and identify the source.’ – Mail on Sunday
- An outrage worthy of a police state – Mail on Sunday Leader
- Legal documents were spotted in a Chinese restaurant – Mail on Sunday
Fears of child exploitation ‘whitewash’ in Manchester
‘A senior teacher turned whistleblower said the response of the authorities when she raised concerns about the safeguarding of pupils had been “a whitewash”. The warnings follow Ofsted’s decision last month to rate Manchester’s children’s services as “inadequate”. The regulator said “child sexual exploitation processes are not well embedded in social care teams” and “there are insufficient links being made with children who may be sexually exploited”.’ – Sunday Times (£)
- Moves to ban knives in prison, at last – Sun on Sunday (£)
News in brief
- Suspect in Alice Gross murder case found dead – Mail on Sunday
- Compare Hong Kong’s protestors to our riotous thugs – Tony Parsons, Sun on Sunday (£)
- Pope hosts synod on the family – Mail on Sunday
- Texas Ebola patient is in critical condition – Sunday Telegraph
- Baby Doc Duvalier dies – Sun on Sunday (£)
- What to watch in the Brazilian election – Daniel Hamilton, Vice
- Threat of an oil war – Sunday Telegraph
- Kim Jong Un-seated? – The Independent on Sunday
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