The Labour party's battle with business over NI increases is becoming the early issue in this election.
The Sun leads with the story that
business leaders last night savaged Gordon Brown as "economically illiterate" over his plans to increase National Insurance payments.
Whilst the Telegraph reports that
The Prime Minister faced further embarrassment when he visited the drinks company Innocent in west London. The company's co-founder Richard Reed suggested afterwards that the national insurance rise was bad for business and meant he would have to look “even more carefully at our payroll”.
The Guardian concentrates on the Tories leading with the story that
One of David Cameron's independent efficiency experts who identified the £12bn spending savings an incoming Conservative government could make this year chairs a private healthcare firm that openly admits it will benefit from NHS spending cutbacks.
Meanwhile a Populus poll in the Times shows that the Conservative leader has still not sealed the deal with voters.
A big majority of the doubters believe that the Conservatives have not made a strong enough case for a change from Labour and half think that Mr Cameron is too inexperienced to be prime minister.
An interesting story in the Independent which reports that figures obtained by the paper under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Department for International Development has lost nearly £720,000 over the past five years as a result of "fraud, corruption and abuse" by governments in the developing world or NGOs using British funds.
Whilst the Mail reports that virtually every extra job created under Labour has gone to a foreign worker.
Figures suggested an extraordinary 98.5 per cent of 1.67million new posts were taken by immigrants.
The Express also leads with that story saying that Gordon Brown’s attempt to silence election debate on Labour’s immigration record was shattered last night.
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