The Sunday Times leads with a controversy that has broken out claiming that Labour has been sending cancer patients alarmist mailshots saying their lives could be at risk under a Conservative government.
Cancer patients who received the personalised cards, sent with a message from a breast cancer survivor praising her treatment under Labour, said they were “disgusted and shocked”, and feared that the party may have had access to confidential health data.
The Observer leads with a message from the Lib Dem leader who warns that Britain will be hit by waves of "Greek-style unrest" if a Tory or Labour government narrowly wins the election and then tries to push through draconian spending cuts.
The Telegraph has an interview with David Cameron in which the Tory leader explicitly turns his back on the more "divisive" policies associated with Baroness Thatcher’s government in the 1980s.
The latest poll in the Independent delivers a damning verdict on the economic promises of both Labour and Conservatives, with two out of three people believing Gordon Brown and David Cameron are being dishonest about how they would reduce the deficit.
the survey puts Labour on 32 points, seven points behind the Conservatives – suggesting that Mr Cameron would be 15 seats short of a majority. Worryingly for Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrats are on only 16 per cent – a four-point drop since the previous ComRes poll in March.
Other polls out today show strong Conservative leads.An ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph has the Tories on 38% and Labour on 30% and a YouGov/Sunday Times poll has the Tories on 40%, Labour on 32% and the Lib Dems on 18%.
Whilsy according to the BPIX survey in the Mail on Sunday,Labour is on 31 per cent and the Conservatives on 38 per cent – which is still shy of the 40 per cent mark regarded as the bare minimum for a working Tory majority and the same lead as the last BPIX poll a fortnight ago.
It tell its readers that David Cameron will this week step up his drive for power by unveiling a radical pledge on access to GPs
The Tory manifesto will include a guarantee that everyone will be able to see a doctor in their area for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Other political stories in the papers today include former cabinet minister Clare Short saying that a hung Parliament would be "terribly good" for the country
The Observer reports that on embarrassment for the Tories as Swiss-born supporter is found to have given money to a group that wants Britain to leave the EU.
According to the Sunday Times,Labour is facing a mass revolt from its own parliamentary candidates desperate not to lose their seats over impending plans to raise university tuition fees.
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