The 6,000 or so Liberal Democrat delegates heading for the start of their five-day conference will be delighted to arrive in Bournemouth to blue sky and glorious sunshine and, best of all, their party leader talking tough as he seeks to portray the party as the most progressive in modern British politics.
Nick Clegg will tonight seek to frame Labour as a spent force and the Conservatives as wheeler-dealers.
The Times reports that the Lib Dems have set up an anti-Tory attack unit with Chris Huhne, the party's home affairs spokesman, being chief hitman.
Clegg is also training his guns on the public sector, which he has warned can expect "savage" cuts to shrink the budget deficit.
The Lib Dem leader's position on the spending debate is likely to stir up some strong opposition – and that's just internally, according to the Independent.
Mark Pack, from Liberal Democrat Voice, has blogged the highlights of an interview Clegg had with 10 bloggers earlier today, which suggests that Clegg doesn't plan to ditch the commitment to scrapping tuition fees, but he might just delay it, if the Lib Dems form government after the general election.
The spending debate continues to be explored in the press, with a handy explainer in the Times about public debt, which is apparently rising at the cost of £6,017 per second.
It emerged today that the NHS is going to have to look at savings of between £15bn and £20bn in the next five years, according to the health secretary, Andy Burham,
The Daily Telegraph, meanwhile, reports sore feelings within the Conservative camp about the publication of Treasury analysis of Tory policies, which suggests these would cost billions. All's fair in love and war, surely, since the Tories leaked documents showing that Labour was planning to cut public spending by almost 10% and had been thinking about it for quite some time.
Before tonight's rally the Liberal Democrats will kick off the conference with debate about "real women", an all-encompassing feminist policy motion which calls for women to have "real choice" about balancing care responsibilities and work, and which challenges trends which "overtly sexualise and trivialise the position of women" in society.
