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5.45pm ToryDiary: BBC banned Tory Blackberrys on election night

4pm PlayPolitical: Watch Cameron and Brown exchange personal jibes at PMQs

3.45pm ToryDiary: Boris moves quickly to impose alcohol ban on London’s tube and buses

3.30pm CF Diary: IYDU Freedom Forum to be held in Paris

2.30pm CentreRight: Peter Franklin asks: "Who decided to downgrade cannabis in the first place?"

1.45pm ToryDiary: Cameron points to importance of low council tax in last week’s victories

1pm ToryDiary: PMQs: Brown challenged on Scottish independence and earyl-release schemes

Seats and candidates: What do Tory members want from their parliamentary candidates? Results of our poll

Local government: Advice for the party’s three hundred new councillors

Nicholas Bennett on Platform: It was Bromley wot won it

Tim Montgomerie on CentreRight: Is it finally over for Hillary?

Should Madame Tussauds make a waxwork of Gordon Brown? The Madame is holding a vote.

55% of Labour voters want Brown to quit - ToryDiary

"Yet if voters are warming to Mr Cameron and the Tories, the story of the past
week was essentially about the unpopularity of Mr Brown and Labour. The
Tories need a firmer base if they are to win outright rather than merely
deny Labour an absolute majority. As the Cameron camp accepts, the Tories
have to do much more to give the public a reason to vote for them rather
than against Labour." - Peter Riddell in The Times

Brown can only survive now by cultivating his core supporters - Peter Clarke in the FT

"Gordon Brown was facing fresh battles on three fronts to retain his political authority yesterday as senior figures challenged him over Scottish independence, 42 days detention and the 10p tax climbdown." - Guardian

"Everywhere you look, there’s the same impression of drift and
indecision.  Take pay-as-you-throw taxes on rubbish collection. One
minute, we’re told they’ve been scrapped - the next they’re going
ahead. Then we’re told there may be pilot schemes - but we’re not to
worry, because nothing much may come of them." - Daily Mail leader

Simon Jenkins: Voters don’t want policy, but charm and novelty

"From the moment David Cameron took over the Conservative party in 2005, he was advised to steer clear of policy, to stick instead to such vacuities as compassionate conservatism and "social responsibility". Every pollster asserted that, with democracy no longer about some great clash of class or economic interest, voters wanted their leaders to be reassuring, celebrated, pleasant on television and somehow therefore trustworthy in a crisis." - The Guardian

But there is some good news for Mr Brown…

BBC reports that Sarkozy and Merkel have vetoed Blair getting the EU Presidency

Cameron: We are on a permanent election footing and are ready to govern at a moment’s notice - Daily Mail

Cameron promises "heart and soul" battle for Crewe

"David Cameron has set his sights on securing the first Conservative by-election gain in 26 years, pledging yesterday to put his “heart and soul” into winning Crewe & Nantwich." - Times

"David Cameron yesterday tried to turn the Crewe and Nantwich byelection into a referendum on Gordon Brown’s "tax con budget", which led to the abolition of the 10p starting rate of tax." - Guardian

Stand up for London, Boris

Irwin Stelzer offers some advice to Boris Johnson: "Become the noisy advocate-in-chief for London and
Londoners. New Yorkers always find this endearing in their mayors. Give
the business community what it needs to be internationally competitive,
even if that means a thumb in the eye to George Osborne’s plan to make
the City less attractive to non-domiciled foreigners such as yours
truly.  Persuade the leader of the Opposition and
the shadow chancellor that the high-tax regime they plan to retain will
hurt London’s small businesses, and don’t hesitate to make sure that
entrepreneurs’ interests are not subordinated to those of the
ever-whingeing City bankers." - Telegraph

An overview of Tory measures to help business - Sean O’Grady in The Independent

"The Conservatives would work with Rolls-Royce to develop strategies for a “manufacturing revival”, David Cameron said on Tuesday, in a sign of his party’s determination to woo the corporate vote with business-friendly policies." - FT

Jacqui Smith expected to ignore advisory group and tighten classification of cannabis - BBC

House of Commons goes to Courts today to stop disclosure of MPs’ expenses - Sky

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