The e-mail will be sent to 100,000 Tory members who will then be asked to forward it to 10 family members, friends or business contacts.His beliefs include ensuring people are not “nannied” by the state, enabling all children to be better educated than their parents and guaranteeing security in old age.A Tory spokesman said: “We are trying to use more positive campaigning, which is more about what we stand for That’s what the electorate are crying out for. During John Major’s final five years in power, and under the leadership of William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith, the Tories concentrated heavily on trying to wound Labour.The new strategy was devised by Lord Saatchi, Margaret Thatcher’s advertising guru, who was appointed co-chairman of the party by Mr Howard in November.Notorious recent Tory campaigns have included the 1997 “demon eyes” advertisement depicting Tony Blair with devil’s eyes, and posters four years ago showing the Prime Minister next to the word “Bliar”.The advertising drive, which will be launched today, will coincide with an e-mail marketing campaign to sell Mr Howard’s message. Michael Howard, the Tory leader, broke with the past yesterday when he launched what was billed as the party’s first positive advertising campaign for 12 years. “We have been trying to track down that information in a place where certainly from time to time coalition forces are coming under attack and moreover where certain people in Iraq obviously have an interest in continuing to conceal their involvement in these programmes.”Mr Hoon said he did not believe the war and the subsequent Hutton inquiry into the apparent suicide of the government weapons expert David Kelly had damaged his reputation..

He said: “I would expect to see the role of British forces change, subtly perhaps.”I’m sure we will still be there assisting Iraqis in providing security. But instead of in a sense being legally an occupying power we will be there in support of a transitional government, assisting that government on the way, we hope, towards democracy.”The Defence Secretary acknowledged that the armed forces would be stretched by the open-ended commitment. Britain has 11,000 troops, mainly stationed in and around Basra in the south of the country.Interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s The World at One, Mr Hoon refused to be drawn on how many British troops would be stationed in Iraq this time next year. British soldiers will still be deployed in Iraq in a year’s time, Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, said yesterday.
But he said their role would alter over the coming year, from being part of an occupying army to a stabilisation force assisting an Iraqi administration.

I do think there are very few lazy MPs.”Most MPs at the top of the voting table are Government whips or tellers, but one backbencher with a high attendance was Colin Pickthall, MP for Lancashire West.Mr Pickthall said the fact that some hardworking MPs, such as Ms Dunwoody, came near the bottom proved the need to change Commons hours back to include late-night sittings. But frankly some of the other work MPs do is more important than whether the Government gets a majority of 163 or 164,” Mr Dalyell said. “George Galloway has done a public meeting virtually every night in recent months I have done a lot myself. “I haven’t voted for a long time because I have been on the road. In the past 16 months I have spoken at more than 500 public meetings,” he told The Independent. “I have taken my politics on to the road and I think that is rather more productive than voting in the House of Commons, to be frank.”Mr Dalyell said that one of the main reasons his attendance looked so low was that as a Scottish MP, he held a principle of not voting on legislation that affected only England. He also said that he was kept busy with his duties as Rector of Edinburgh University and had sometimes abstained if he objected to a Bill.”If the Government had a majority of less than 50, then of course I would be voting more.