Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: 29-year-old James Wharton MP will table EU Referendum Bill
• Guido Fawkes: Top Leftie credentials of new Newsnight editor
• Dan Hannan: This is the closest we have ever been to leaving the EU
• London Loves Business: “Sack Dan Hannan” says *Tory* MEP
• Telegraph: Extreme left try to silence anti-EU talk
• Spectator: Where UKIP won… and why

On this day…

• 1915: The last ever Liberal Party majority government fell

Daily Thatcherite

• “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

Daily Reaganite

• “I’m afraid I can’t use a mule. I have several hundred up on Capitol Hill.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: 114 Conservative MPs vote for EU referendum
• BBC News: Labour’s biggest (non-union) donor wants EU referendum
• Guido Fawkes: A joint Tory-UKIP candidate? No one batted an eyelid over Boles’ suggestion of joint Tory-Lib Dem candidates
• Brian Binley MP: The truth about Labour’s immigration shame
• Quentin Letts: New Labour’s busybody wants a charter for killing grannies
• Telegraph: Labour councillor vetoes flying of St George’s cross because it might offend 16 Muslims – who say they’re not offended

On this day…

• 1991: Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address a joint session of the US Congress

Daily Thatcherite

• “If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”

Daily Reaganite

• “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: British taxpayers must pay £770m MORE to EU
• James Forsyth: Will the EU Bill calm Tory tensions?
• Guido Fawkes: No clause in EU Bill to force government to act after referendum
• Daily Mail: What has happened to the once respectable RSPCA?
• Standpoint: The futility of academic boycotts
• Max Chambers: Police Commissioners making genuine progress

On this day…

• 1536: Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife, stood trial for treason, adultery and incest

Daily Thatcherite

• “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

Daily Reaganite

• “Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Nile Gardiner: Obama’s top 10 insults against Britain
• Damian Thompson: What it takes to get the BBC to like a Tory Prime Minister
• Guardian: UKIP on 18% in latest poll. That’s a lot of fruitcakes Prime Minister!
• Breitbart: An absolutely disgusting story that has barely even been mentioned in Britain’s liberal media
• Baroness Warsi: It is not racist to limit immigration or expect immigrants to speak English
• Telegraph: Animal Rights nutters force wildlife charity patron to quit

On this day…

• 1727: English painter Thomas Gainsborough was born

Daily Thatcherite

• “We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.”

Daily Reaganite

• “A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Dan Hannan: Gove and Hammond would vote to leave the EU
• James Delingpole: First they came for the jelly wrestlers…
• John Redwood: Time to bring the modernising agenda up to date?
• BBC News: Mandelson attacks “One Nation Labour”
• Daniel Johnson: Hawking has fallen into a moral black hole over Israel boycott (£)
• Quentin Letts: How Clegg holds Britain to ransom

On this day…

• 1912: The Royal Flying Corps, the precursor to the RAF, was founded

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• BBC News: Lord Lamont: We need EU renegotiation – if that fails we should leave
• Telegraph: Britain must be ready to walk away from EU, says Boris
• Dan Hannan: Why politicians admit to being Eurosceptic only after leaving office
• Nile Gardiner: EU exit is inevitable
• Peter Lilley: Britain can’t afford to surrender to the greens on shale gas
• Douglas Murray: Thatcher-bashing bores

On this day…

• 1940: Winston Churchill was appointed Prime Minister for the first time

Daily Thatcherite

• “It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge”

Daily Reaganite

• “From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than thirty years to establish their legitimacy. But none — not one regime — has yet been able to risk free elections”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Charles Moore: Maggie wanted to leave the EU
• The Times: Portillo joins the chorus calling for an EU exit (£)
• Dan Hannan: The idea of EU Renegotiation is pure fantasy
• BBC News: The Queen’s Speech analysed bill-by-bill
• Kenneth Minogue: How a quarter of the electorate rejected the Liberal Establishment
• Nile Gardiner: The Prime Minister needs to stop fawning over leftist Obama

On this day…

• 1671: Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London

Daily Thatcherite

• “For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.”

Daily Reaganite

• “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. … The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Jacob Rees-Mogg: Time for a Conservative-UKIP pact
• Sky News: Lord Lawson interviewed on why he wants to leave the EU
• Spectator: An optimistic view of EU renegotiation talks
• Telegraph: RSPCA waste yet more public money on failed hunt prosecution
• Daily Mail: Children being put at risk by Human Rights legislation
• Examiner: Queen to scale back royal duties

On this day… VE Day

• 1945: Germany surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II in Europe

Daily Thatcherite

• “For my part, I favour an approach to statecraft that embraces principles, as long as it is not stifled by them; and I prefer such principles to be accompanied by steel along with good intentions”

Daily Reaganite

• “”We the people” tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Nigel Lawson: Let’s quit the EU (£)
• Brendan O’Neill: Left-wing hysteria is demeaning the disabled
• The Commentator: Let’s celebrate the closure of ULU
• Charles Moore: Edmund Burke: The first important conservative thinker
• Melanie Phillips: How the Left have wrecked the education system
• Gerald Warner: How the French “Enlightenment” wreaked destruction on mankind

On this day…

• 1940: The Norway Debate began in the House of Commons, leading to the ousting of Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister

Daily Thatcherite

• “No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect.”

Daily Reaganite

• “You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we’re not bound by that same limitation?”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• BBC News: UKIP make gains in local elections
• John Redwood: Why doesn’t the BBC highlight Green-Lib Dem divide?
• Ed West: UKIP are a reaction against Britain’s new elite
• Tim Stanley: Revealed: The five loopiest Guardian articles
• Dan Hannan: Who are these extremists pulling Cameron towards an In/Out referendum? 82% of the electorate!

On this day…

• 1979: Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister.

Daily Thatcherite

• “When you’ve spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it’s exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.”

Daily Reaganite

• “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”