| Thursday 1 April 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Gavin Esler Bosses of some of the UK's biggest firms have backed Conservative plans to axe part of Labour's planned National Insurance rise if they win power. The 23 businessmen include bosses from Marks and Spencer and Next. David Cameron has called it a "significant" moment in the election campaign, but Labour has hit back calling the Conservative plans an "unfunded promise". Justin Rowlatt investigates just how significant today's intervention is and asks whether letters like this from high profile businessmen give a party more credibility with the voters. We'll be joined live in the studio by prominent businesspeople. The battle is on for the Labour selection in Stoke-on-Trent Central. Tonight the candidate will be chosen and our political editor Michael Crick will be reporting live from Stoke. No women or local candidates have made the final shortlist. The historian, author and broadcaster Tristram Hunt is the favourite, but other prospective candidates are Oxford Councillor Sajjad-Hussain Malik and journalist Joe Ukemenam. Also tonight - we'll have a report on how the families of some murder victims are upset that the BNP is using their cases as part of its campaign. We hope to be joined live by a representative of the BNP. Plus we look at the growing drugs problem in Russia which now has around 2.5 million heroin addicts. Rupert Wingfield Hayes investigates what has been called the recent "tsunami" sweeping over the country in terms of the rise in heroin addiction. Newsnight will be off air on Friday and Monday, but will return on Tuesday of next week. | 
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