YouGov/Sun poll tonight – Tories have a one-point lead, Lib Dems and Greens in joint fourth: CON 34%, LAB 33%, LD 6%, UKIP 15%, GRN 6%
City A.M
Editorial: Watchdog reshuffle ahead of key report.
– PwC staff grilled by MPs over Luxembourg deals.
– Why the Salmond surge won’t happen – and the Scots will back Labour in 2015.
– How government is opening its supply chain – to small business’s benefit.
Daily Mail
Editorial: The best way to put food on every table.
The Express
Editorial: Leaving EU would lead to more international trade.
– Myth of importance of EU trade blown apart.
– Tory apologises after blaming rise in food banks on ‘poor people not being able to cook’.
– UK black community no longer feels ‘needed’ due to migrants, says Ukip’s Winston McKenzie.
Financial Times
Editorial: Food banks are a blight on modern Britain.
– Cameron caught in devolution crossfire.
– Fracturing of UK politics complicates general election.
The Guardian
Editorial: The Guardian view on the judge who said Asians didn’t have important jobs.
Editorial: The Guardian view on food poverty: the bank of Cameron and Osborne.
– Liberal Democrats facing even bigger wipeout than expected.
– Ministers answer calls for a College of Teaching.
The Independent
– Ukip ‘twice as dangerous’ to Tory election prospects as to Labour’s.
– Disgraced ex-Tory MP Neil Hamilton in line to make stunning Commons comeback for Ukip.
– Labour’s Ed Miliband formally pledges to give 16-year-olds the vote during Leaders Live event.
The Sun
– May extends lead over Bojo in Tory leader race.
– Campaigners to target Morgan over same-sex marriage U-turn.
– Drugs giant accused of ‘scamming the British public’.
– Britain faces £500m bill from Brussels.
The Telegraph
Editorial: Time for thrift to pay.
Editorial: David Cameron must persuade Turkey to turn its guns on Isil.
– The Coalition flunked its great opportunity to rethink the state.
– Alex Salmond refuses to repay £65,000 ‘golden goodbye’.
– More patients surviving cancer than ever before, Jeremy Hunt says.
– State pensions to rise by just 87p, Labour warn.
– Ukip announce mansion tax break for historic home owners.
The Times
Editorial: We are borrowing insanely. Another crash is inevitable.
– Ukip’s star woman quits after sex claims.
– Cuts give Labour a chance, Mandelson tells Miliband.
– Embrace migrants, Merkel ally to tell PM.
– Dough! Pizza could soon carry five-a-day logo.
Events
– ANKARA: David Cameron visit to Turkey.
– 0900: Firefighters strike. Fire Brigades Union members in England strike for 24 hours in a long-running row over pensions.
– 0930 LONDON: MPs hear evidence on Whitehall’s capacity to meet future challenges.
– 0945 LONDON: Boris Johnson and Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe walkabout to make announcement on future of New Scotland Yard.
– 1100 LONDON: Boris Johnson and Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime visit Hammersmith and Fulham College.
– 1230 LONDON: Briefing into effectiveness of e-cigarettes on giving up smoking.
– 1400 NETHERLANDS: Parts of MH17 wreckage to arrive in the Netherlands.
– 1430 LONDON: Jeremy Hunt gives evidence to MPs on health and social care expenditure.
– 1535 LONDON: Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin appears before House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee on HS2.
– 1830 LONDON: Chuka Umunna at Progress “in conversation” event.