Sunday 11th May 2008
8.30pm: Over at WebCameron David Cameron reviews his conversations with members of London's Burma community, from a little earlier today.
7.45pm ToryDiary: What will a Cameron premiership be like?
6pm PlayPolitical video: Sky News notes how autobiographies from Cherie Blair, Lord Levy and John Prescott are only compounding the Prime Minister's difficulties
Noon ToryDiary: England and Scotland should vote on the future of the Union in May 2009, says Lord Forsyth
Seats and candidates: News of the World attacks "greedy" Tory MEPs
Oberon Houston on Platform: A vision for Britain
Simon Chapman on CentreRight: Labour plays the race card in Crewe
Tories are 4% ahead in Crewe by-election
"The Tories are poised to achieve their first parliamentary by-election gain since the heyday of Margaret Thatcher, dealing a hammer blow to Gordon Brown's hopes of survival… The ICM survey for The Mail on Sunday puts the Tories on 43 per cent with Labour trailing on 39 – a dramatic ten per cent swing in the Cheshire constituency since the last General Election." - Mail on Sunday
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Brown's ratings collapse in PoliticsHome.com survey of 5,000 voters
"Respect for Gordon Brown has dropped so calamitously that only one
in five voters now reckons the Prime Minister is doing a good job while
three-quarters of them think he is doing a bad one… It is not just the depth of this collapse that is
stunning. It is the sheer width of it, the comprehensive shattering of
his reputation in all the areas that matter to the public. On every
leadership quality that is important, the Prime Minister is now
regarded less favourably than David Cameron… The brutal but inescapable truth revealed by this survey is that the
voters do not want to change anything about Gordon Brown. They want to
change absolutely everything." - Andrew Rawnsley in The Observer
There is much more about this new opinion tracker at PoliticsHome.com.
Boris Johnson accused of hiring mates
The Sunday Times profiles 'Team Boris'
Member of Boris' financial audit committee predicts savings of tens of millions of pounds - Sunday Telegraph
Brian Paddick's farcical London campaign diary - Mail on Sunday
…And - it's proving to be a Mirror speciality - the red top accuses Boris of cycling through red lights…
"The blundering Tory zipped through SIX red lights, one pedestrian crossing and cycled on the pavement - on his 20-minute journey to and from work." - Sunday MIrror
Another day, another Labour autobiography bashing Brown
"Brown was “frustrating, annoying, bewildering and pricklyâ€. He sulked so often during meetings that they had to be abandoned. On other occasions he could “go off like a bloody volcanoâ€." - The Sunday Times serialises John Prescott's account of tensions between Blair and Brown
"John Prescott urged Tony Blair to sack Gordon Brown as chancellor when tensions ran high after their frequent rows," - Independent on Sunday
And there's one very good reason why all the memoirs are being published now: "Cherie surely shares the Blairite view – even if her husband's opinion remains inscrutable – that Brown's chances of leading the party into the next election are no better than 50-50. Best to publish now before her account becomes the dry-as-dust history of two prime ministers ago. That is her book's most wounding judgement about her husband's rival and successor." - John Rentoul in The Independent on Sunday
Labour MPs launch rival attempt to cut abortion limit - The Sunday Telegraph
Wendy Alexander ordered by Brown to shut up about independence vote - Scotland on Sunday
Controversial Scottish plans to decriminalise sex for 13 to 15 year-olds - The Herald
And finally…
Michael and Sandra Howard appear on ITV1's revival of Mr & Mrs (but get most questions about each other wrong) - The Sunday Times
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