11pm MPsETC: Read the full text of Grant Shapps' letter to the UN Secretary-General in protest at their biased Housing investigator 4pm Peter Wilding on Comment: "Europhobes will of course ignore all this. For them the rhetoric is sexier than the reality. Butthe fact is that the British Government has a serious reform plan, has […]
7.45pm WATCH: Pro-HS2 campaign releases new video laying claim to the Victorian engineering tradition 6.15pm Eric Pickles MP on Comment: "For the first time troubled families are being shown a bit of tough love. For too long the system allowed them to be cuddled into the system, giving the most vulnerable no obvious exit from the cycle […]
7pm WATCH: Clips from Cameron's and Osborne's statements today… David Cameron: "A political settlement is the only way to a stable, inclusive and democratic Syria" The economy is "turning a corner", says George Osborne 5pm ToryDiary: More evidence emerges that young voters are shifting to the right – this time on the welfare state 2pm […]
6.15pm WATCH: A pair of clips from earlier today… The G20 discussions about Syria were "heavy going", says Hague There's "no simple solution" to the A&E situation, argues Anna Soubry 1.30pm On Comment, Laura Perrins asks: What is a ‘sex expert’ and where can I find one? "The point is, that this area is just too […]
3.30pm International: What does Abbott's win mean for Cameron? Noon ToryDiary: "Before the G20, we were already the second largest supplier of aid to Syrians, committing a package of assistance worth almost £350 million. Cameron announced at the summit that total UK funding for assistance in Syria and neighbouring states will rise to £400 million." […]
5.30pm WATCH: Cameron's patriotic speech set to music, courtesy of Guido 4.45pm Adrian Hilton on Comment: Why Number 10 is wrong to pull Ministers from the Windsor Tory Renewal Conference 4pm MPsETC: Candidate applications open for five more seats 3.15pm James Frayne on Comment: Where the Tory campaigning operation is succeeding, and where it's lacking 3pm ToryDiary: […]
6pm WATCH: IDS: "I lost faith in the ability of my civil servants to manage this programme" 4.30pm MPsETC: We need more social entrepreneurs as Tory MPs: Toby Young must do his duty 3.15pm George Bathurst on Comment: Cameron's defeat in the Syria vote shows how urgently Conservative Renewal is needed 2.45pm ToryDiary: Michael Gove […]
5.30pm ToryDiary: Conservative members still want the Coalition to end shortly before the election (and are opposed to the idea of another afterwards) 4.30pm ToryDiary: After the summer bounce, the autumn lull – our latest Cabinet league table shows little meaningful change from the last 3pm On ToryDiary, Andrew Gimson's PMQs sketch returns after the summer recess: Both […]
10pm ToryDiary: What Britain can do to help Syrians 6.15pm We end the afternoon with two opposing points of view on the Lobbying Bill: Alun Cairns MP and Rob Wilson MP defend the Bill on Comment: Sense and nonsense on the Lobbying Bill – a response to ConservativeHome and others ToryDiary: Unclear, riven with unintended consequences and open […]
6.30pm WATCH: The situation would have to change "very significantly", says Philip Hammond, for there to be a second Syria vote 5.30pm On Comment, Andrew Lilico says that, for constitutional reasons, William Hague should resign over the Syria vote: "The government lost the vote on its Syria policy. That military action was clearly a foreign policy, rather […]
6pm WATCH: The late Sir David Frost interviews Baroness Thatcher, 1995 5.15pm Benedict Rogers on Comment: David Cameron walks tall, but was failed by pygmies 2.30pm ToryDiary: Gove's passion: for schools, Syria – and democracy everywhere 12.15pm MPsETC: Reshuffle speculation, what reshuffle speculation? ToryDiary: "If MPs have the power to make such important decisions, they will have to grow […]
7.30pm ToryDiary: Obama seeks Congress to approve military action on Syria 3.30pm ToryDiary: What would Thatcher have done about Syria? 2pm Ryan Shorthouse on Comment: Optimism is crucial for Conservatives 12.30pm LeftWatch: The strange death of liberal interventionist Labour 10.45am ToryDiary:Downing Street's Corporal Jones moment? ToryDiary:A majority of Tory members backed missile strikes on Syria […]
5.45pm WATCH: Nadhim Zahawi says Parliament has "let down the innocent people of Syria" 2.15pm Anatole Pang on Comment: "China is very receptive to Britain – more so than we might realize. Since the conclusion of the tensions over the Hong Kong handover in 1997, Britain has had the benefit of a clean slate and […]
Half past midnight, MPsETC: Full list of the 30 Conservative rebel MPs who sank the Government's Syria motion 11pm GOVERNMENT LOSES SYRIA VOTE BY 13 VOTES – 285 VOTES TO 272. * Cameron says he believes in respecting the will of the House – and that he "gets" the message. * Big implications for special […]
Midnight ToryDiary: Cameron hasn't solved his Party problems this summer – and his Syrian humiliation proves it 5.45pm Two posts on Syria: ToryDiary: "Military action could well have knock-on effects here. Some 12 per cent of Britain's Muslims are Shi'ites. There have already been attempts by Sunni extremists to stir up anti-Shi'ite violence. The Home […]