Buoyant Brown on top of his game - 8 in the morning, February 3rd

8am By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* The Green Paper on Defence spending will be published later today, paving the way or the first strategic defence review for more than a decade.

* The Prime Minister outlines his plans for a new politics to reconnect politicians on all sides to the people.

* If electoral reform is back on the agenda, that can only be a good thing, says the Independent leader.

* The PM’s plans for electoral reform are too little, too late, writes Michael White in the Guardian.

* Sion Simon is reported to be standing down as Labour MP at the forthcoming general election.

* Two minutes after George Osborne said Lord Stern had become a Tory adviser, Lord Stern said “no I’m not.”

* The Prime Minister seems buoyant — Cameron must be worried, writes Ann Treneman in the Times.

* Jonathan Freedland says that while David Cameron’s judgement is increasingly in doubt, the media are still not scrutinising Tory plans.

Alex Smith

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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