Conservative-held and target seats will have to choose candidates from the list, about half of whom will be women, under plans to be unveiled on Monday.
Mr Cameron has said he wants the Conservative Party to be more representative of the UK as a whole, and will on Monday announce a freeze on selection of would-be MPs.
An shortlist of the "best and brightest" of existing candidates and new recruits will then be drawn up.
About half of the names on the list are expected to be women, and there will also be ethnic minority candidates.
** Not sure thats a good idea. The New Labour people tryed that and we have one MP selected from an all woman shortlist in Newport and she (Jessica Morden) does bugger all for my city. Mind you the other one has been convicted of libel (Paul Flynn). Jessica Morden has never once voted against the party line, in fact hardly voted at all... So here we see a typical example of what happens when you use selection lists to pick your MP's for an area and also boost the number of women in the House of Commons.
What does it matter if your MP is male or female, so long as they represent the voters and are the best person for the job, getting the right person is the number one priority not pandering to the pc brigade and ticking the correct boxes on some quota form.
Paul Flynns apology:
Recently Paul Flynn was involved in a libel case where he made comments about an endowment pensions company, the result of which he had to pay out damages. He was sued after he posted an attack on such companies on his website, claiming they were out to "re-rob" the victims of endowment mis-selling by dishonestly over-charging them for their services.
But he made the mistake of referring to well-regarded company Endowment Justice Ltd, which represents mis-selling victims on a "no-win, no-fee" basis. The company and its directors sued and at London's High Court Mr Flynn made a public apology for the "unjustified attack" on the claimants' integrity.
The MP as part of the settlement put the following statement on his website: On this website in February this year, I made certain statements referring to Endowment Justice Limited, one of the companies which offers assistance in obtaining compensation for those people who were mis-sold endowment policies. I have been campaigning against companies providing professional services in relation to endowment policy compensation claims, but my facts about Endowment Justice were incorrect. As a result, I wrongly accused the company and its directors Nick Keca, Marianne Fitzjohn and Graeme Webber of having previously mis-sold endowment policies and now dishonestly overcharging those self-same victims to help them obtain compensation. I am happy to clarify that neither Endowment Justice Ltd or any of its directors were ever involved in any aspect of endowment policy selling. It was therefore false and unfair to suggest that they had profited from the historic mis-selling of endowment policies. I was also incorrect in stating that Endowment Justice, which offers its services in recovering compensation on a “no-win, no-fee” basis, could charge its customers up to 40% of any compensation gained. Endowment Justice in fact charge customers 17.5% plus VAT or 22.5% plus VAT of any compensation gained. I was wrong to give the unintended impression that the company or its directors acts in any way improperly or unlawfully in providing services to those seeking compensation for endowment policy mis-selling. I would like to apologise to Endowment Justice for my allegations, and to Mr. Keca, Ms. Fitzjohn and Mr. Webber for any embarrassment or distress caused by my false remarks.
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