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Beef crisis
pounds 29m income support for beef farmers - new money
A registration scheme for farmers caught in the BSE slaughter backlog. pounds 16.5m extra to pay for cold storage of carcasses awaiting destruction to ease backlog - new money
Law and order
Dance clubs suspected of allowing drug dealing will be closed, even while appealing against charges only wholly new announcement
Legislation against stalking will definitely go ahead - pledge.
Naming juvenile offenders - leaked two weeks ago.
Driving licences to be taken away from offenders - trailed in yesterday's papers, but now revealed that it applies to all offences.
QUOTES OF THE DAY
"I don't think I'd want a federal Europe even if Margaret Thatcher was running it." Michael Howard, Home Secretary, on the fringe.
"Mr Blair, I know Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher is a friend of mine. When Margaret Thatcher was rebuilding this country, you opposed everything she did. Mr Blair, you're no Margaret Thatcher." Brian Mawhinney, Tory party chairman.
"Michael Forsyth has scared the Scottish Labour Party out of their kilts. He has looked under their sporrans and found ... not very much." Struan Stevenson, candidate in Dumfries.
"When Charles Lewington comes in here he looks as if he's come into the toilet." Journalist on Tories' chief spin doctor's visits to press room.
GOOD DAY... ...BAD DAY DEVIL OF THE DAY
Stephen Dorrell, Health Secretary, succeeded in Central Office's ambition to achieve zero coverage for the NHS
Douglas Hogg, Minister of Agriculture: resignation demanded by howling mob of angry farmers
Peter Mandelson, Labour MP for Spin Central, mocked in nearly every ministerial speech
THE CROWD-PULLERS ON THE FRINGE
David Trimble, Ulster Unionist leader, and David Wilshire MP, Tory rebel on Northern Ireland, 200 people
Michael Howard, at Conservative Way Forward rally, the main daily Thatcherite event, 160 people
Lord Tebbit and David Heathcoat-Amory, on how Europe can be an election winner 600 people
MOOD MUSIC OF THE DAY
What they played in between sessions: "Come Together", The Beatles; "Wonderful World", Louis Armstrong; "Here Comes the Sun", The Beatles.
THE PARTY NOT TO BE SEEN AT
The Piper-Heidsieck stall, selling champagne at pounds 5.50 a glass - some classless representatives had bought bottles at pounds 28, pounds 35 and pounds 95
SIGHTINGS
Lord Longford, Labour peer and penal reform campaigner
Des Wilson, Liberal Democrat 1992 election campaign chief
RAPTUREMETER
Michael Howard 1 min 40 sec
(Home Sec) 90 decibels
Brian Mawhinney 1 min 27 sec
(party chairman) 90 decibels
William Hague and 1 min 13 sec
Michael Forsyth 91 decibels
(97 decibel cheer when they held up the Union flag)
TODAY'S BUSINESS
Europe (Malcolm Rifkind), Trade and Industry (Ian Lang), Prime Minister's question and answer session with representatives, Social Security (Peter Lilley), Environment (John Gummer), Transport (Sir George Young).
Compiled by John Rentoul
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