Saturday 10th May 2008
8.45pm: ICM poll puts Tories 4% ahead of Labour in Crewe and Nantwich - Iain Dale and UK Polling Report
7pm Louise Bagshawe on CentreRight: Frank Field threatens Brown with "no confidence"
3.30pm Seats and candidates: Labour MP Chris Mullin MP quits in face of the Tories’ ‘Sunderland surge’
1.15pm Seats and candidates video: Meet Edward Timpson MP… the next Conservative MP for Crewe and Nantwich?
Neil Reddin on Platform: Shifting the centre rightwards
Martin Parsons on CentreRight: A Conservative government should…replace the term ‘Islamophobia’ with ‘Muslimophobia’
PlayPolitical video: McCain says it’s "nonsense" that he didn’t vote for George W Bush
Nick Clegg calls for aid to be parachuted into Burma
"The Lib Dem leader told BBC Radio 4’s The World at One: "I think the time is now coming, drawing very close to taking the most drastic step of all, which is dropping aid directly into Burma, irrespective of the wishes of the Burmese regime. "This, of course, in practical terms is not an ideal solution because you’re dropping aid from the air, it doesn’t guarantee it gets to the people who need it. "But I think it would be an important step to show that the international community is simply not going to stand idly by."" - BBC
John Redwood blogs that only negotiation will succeed in bringing aid to the stricken.
News from Crewe and Nantwich
"Gordon Brown has been warned that "class war" attacks on the Tories are backfiring. Senior ministers are said to be dismayed over attempts to mock the Conservative candidate in the upcoming Crewe by-election for being a "toff." Labour activists, dressed in top hats and tails, have been sent to shadow Edward Timpson - son of John Timpson, the founder of the key- cutting chain - on the campaign trail." - Daily Mail
The Independent finds Labour supporters in open revolt.
Jonathan Isaby notes the Tory strategy of getting out their vote in Nantwich and outlying areas.
An overview of David Cameron’s week - Rosa Prince in The Telegraph
Greg Clark MP highlights doubling of ‘garden-grabbing’ in last decade - Daily Mail
New Tory councillor resigns over allegations he lied about cancer - Guardian
Brown and Cameron both opt for state schools - Scotsman
Peter Oborne: Does Cameron understand that politics has changed?
"Voters have woken up to the fact that the Clinton governing method, as adapted by Tony Blair and now attempted by Gordon Brown, doesn’t work. They have lost faith with the recycled initiatives, the bogus announcements and the structural dishonesty. If Cameron carries on with this flawed methodology, he may win office at the next election, but he will ultimately fail in government." - Peter Oborne in The Daily Mail
Jon Cruddas MP warns that Labour is being ‘out-thought’ by David Cameron
"Labour must re-establish its belief in equality. Equality is the moral
standard of fraternity. It is the ethical core of social justice. It
holds that each person is irreplaceable and of equal worth. As the dust
settles on these elections, Labour needs to rediscover its soul." - Guardian
Unhappy Labour supporters let rip on party website - Independent
Peter Hyman suggests Gordon Brown makes David Miliband his Chancellor - Times
Serialisation of Cherie Blair’s autobiography begins in The Times
"Tony Blair would have resigned ahead of the 2005 general election if
Gordon Brown had not dragged his feet over the pace and direction of
public service reform, Cherie Blair claims today. In an interview
with the former premier’s wife which accompanies extracts from her
forthcoming memoirs, she also says Blair is advising Brown on how to
win the next election, and she says Blair believes Brown can beat David
Cameron." - Guardian
"The former Prime Minister’s wife tells how Mr Blair had a “crisis of confidence†over the Iraq war and feared that he had become an electoral liability. But he decided to stay and fight for his domestic legacy because Mr Brown was “rattling the keys above his headâ€." - Telegraph
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