Want your secret prison plans back , Ken ?sx Escape route file dumped .sx EXCLUSIVE by CHRIS BLYTHE .sx TOP secret plans for Britain's most secure prison - built to defy IRA escape bids - have been found in a pub garden .sx Now the News of the World has returned them to Home Secretary Kenneth Baker .sx Colditz-style Belmarsh prison at Woolwich , South London , opened ten days ago .sx It will house the country's most dangerous Category A prisoners including IRA terrorists , sex offenders , murderers and armed robbers .sx Worried Home Office chiefs vowed to move them there after the escape of IRA terrorists Nessan Quinlivan and Pearse McAuley from Brixton on July 7 .sx TUNNEL The dumped plans include details of a hush-hush underground tunnel which is the key to security at the showpiece pounds109 million jail .sx Brewery worker Fred Day found the documents on a bench in the garden of the Cutty Sark pub overlooking the River Thames in London's Greenwich .sx " These plans could provide the blueprint for an escape for any terrorist or sex fiend who got their hands on them , " he declared .sx .sx " If this is what the Home Office call top security then Gold help us .sx " .sx The 45-year-old former publican said :sx " The papers were just lying there in a blue folder - the sort of thing a schoolkid might use .sx " I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened it up and saw top secret plans for a so-called maximum security prison .sx " I'd heard all the fuss about how Belmarsh was impossible to escape from and all the amazing security measures the Home Office had taken .sx " This makes a mockery of the whole thing .sx " .sx He added :sx " I dread to think who left the papers on the bench .sx " For all I know it could be someone planning an escape already .sx " I immediately decided to hand them in to the News of the World , as it's the paper that always gets action .sx " .sx Yesterday , a News of the World reporter arranged to deliver the documents to Home Office HQ in Westminster .sx Two security officials took them away for examination .sx The dumped folder contains a detailed map setting out the location of security grilles and gates .sx It also shows the route of the underground tunnel through which remand prisoners will be taken for appearances at a court within the jail .sx Belmarsh is designed to house 841 inmates , of which 48 will be high risk Category A prisoners .sx They will be locked in a special prison within a prison in the middle of the complex .sx This is the second security scandal at the jail .sx Just two days after Belmarsh opened it was revealed there was no X-ray screening equipment for visitors which could prevent another IRA-style breakout .sx Home Office spokesman Mr Robert Thomas said :sx " I can't say where these documents come from or who left them .sx We'll look into it .sx " .sx In a prepared statement he said :sx " The security of a prison is not dependent on its layout but on its physical security .sx .sx LAYOUT " Prisoners and visitors soon become familiar with the layout of a prison but they don't know what security systems exist .sx " The Property Services Authority act as project manager for all Home Office prison building projects until the building is completed and formally handed over - in the case of Belmarsh at the beginning of this year .sx " Prison plans are issued on a need to know basis .sx Each contractor only receives plans that relate to his area of work .sx " As you would expect , plans relating to security aspects of the designs are very strictly controlled .sx " .sx Pounds18 - Labour's Tax Blow to Nurses .sx exclusive by Norman Lamont .sx Bigger Bills for all .sx IT'S time Neil Kinnock came clean .sx He declares on TV that " people pay enough in taxes " yet he is also publicly committed to RAISING them !sx .sx Every Labour government since Attlee has put up taxes .sx If Mr Kinnock came to power he would have to do the same - and EVERYBODY would have to pay , not just the better off .sx Labour has broken its promise to put a price tag on its spending pledges .sx But I've done my homework and they add up to at least pounds35 billion .sx To pay for all this Labour must , sooner or later , put up taxes by pounds35 billion a year .sx They pretend this would only hurt the well-off .sx But the sums don't add up .sx RELISH To raise the money they need , Labour's John Smith will hit the ordinary taxpayer - even a nurse will have to find an extra pounds18 a week .sx The truth is , Labour like taxes .sx They put them up not with regret but with relish .sx They want to use the tax system to penalise the hard-working and successful .sx There are EIGHT proposals for tax increases spelled out in their policy documents .sx These include taxes on savings , higher National Insurance Contributions if you earn over pounds20,300 , increased capital gains and inheritance tax .sx And the top rate of income tax would go up from 40p to 50p .sx Yes , these would all hit the better-off .sx But savers , small shareholders , and married couples with no children would also suffer .sx LAWS How much extra tax would this grim list produce ?sx About pounds10 billion a year .sx That's a lot of money - but from Labour's point of view it's not enough .sx As I say , their spending plans will cost at least pounds35 billion a year .sx So that leaves them with a pounds25 billion gap .sx And that gap reveals Labour's hidden tax plan - on top of the increases they've already told us about they must raise those missing billions to finance their extravagant programme .sx Where will this money come from ?sx From the ordinary taxpayer , of course .sx For , try as they might , Labour can't change the laws of arithmetic .sx There simply aren't enough of the better-paid to provide for their spending plans .sx So to raise that extra pounds25 billion , taxes on everybody would have to rise - by the equivalent of 10p in the basic rate .sx Ten pence sounds like a lot .sx It is a lot .sx It is more than the tax cuts made by the Conservatives since 1979 .sx I've worked out what it would cost ordinary workers - you can see from my chart chart it means huge tax bills all round .sx MASSIVE Labour must either ACCEPT they will have to put up taxes or TELL us which spending plans they will drop .sx Of course , they'll do no such thing .sx Labour would put up taxes not just by a little ; not just for the better off , and not just by the eight measures they've admitted .sx Increases would be massive - and for everybody .sx If you´re on average earnings it would cost you pounds25 a week .sx .sx MAJOR TELLS POLL SECRETS TO QUEEN .sx By IAIN MACASKILL .sx PREMIER John Major told the Queen his secret election plans yesterday - and promised another interest rate cut within a month .sx Mr Major , spending the weekend at Balmoral with his family , discussed possible poll dates , including November 7 .sx Election fever cooled slightly as a new opinion poll showed the Tories just two points ahead of Labour .sx A survey earlier in the week had given them a four-point lead .sx The new poll for the Independent on Sunday gives the Tories 41 per cent and Labour 39 .sx But that still represents a six-point swing to the Tories inside a month .sx And Mr Major is under increasing pressure to call an autumn election as the economy continues to pick up .sx Inflation is due to drop below 5% for the first time in three years on Friday .sx Retail sales are still rising and prices of raw materials dropping .sx However , neither Tory MPs nor the party's rank and file want a November election , two new polls show today .sx A Sunday Telegraph/-Gallup survey of 101 MPs reveals just 17 in favour .sx And a Sunday Times study of officials in the 72 key Tory marginal seats shows only 24 per cent want November .sx Meanwhile , Labour are anxious for Mr Major to set an election date at the Tory conference in Blackpool next month .sx The delay is putting a serve strain on their finances , a report by the party's executive reveals .sx Extra staff hired when a June election was expected are being kept on .sx Party bosses may have to increase membership from pounds10 to pounds15 .sx Deputy leader Roy Hattersley last night challenged ministers to pre-election TV debates .sx He suggested John Major v Neil Kinnock , John Smith v Norman Lamont , Gordon Brown v Peter Lilley and himself v Kenneth Baker .sx Mr Hattersley said :sx " I've been hanging around too long wanting to be Home Secretary and I want it now .sx " .sx Bookies William Hill took pounds30,000-worth of bets last week on a November poll and make it even-money favourite .sx Liberal Democrats met yesterday to plan election strategy at their Bournemouth conference .sx You'd rather have a pint with honest John .sx By TIM SPANTON .sx PREMIER John Major gets the nation's vote as Mr Nice Guy .sx An opinion poll conducted specially for the News of the World rates the Prime Minister as the most honest MP in Britain .sx He is also the politician you'd most like to have a pint or a meal with .sx In contrast , Labour leader Neil Kinnock got the thumb down .sx He is the leader you LEAST TRUST to become Premier and the most obnoxious .sx Mr Major , apart from top scores for HONESTY ( 33 per cent ) and TRUST ( 38 ) , also heads the women voters' list as the SEXIEST MP ( 22) .sx He comfortably beat more conventional heart-throbs like Paddy Ashdown and David Owen ( both 17) .sx Performance As a DINNER OR PUB COMPANION , he won a table-topping 20 per cent vote , easily beating Mr Kinnock , Mr Ashdown and ex-PM Maggie Thatcher .sx Perhaps you reckon his expense account would be bigger !sx .sx Only one statistic spoiled the Premier's all-round performance - 18 per cent of you reckon he's a bit of a BORE .sx He even outscored Mrs Thatcher and Ted Heath combined .sx In the SEXIEST WOMAN stakes , Tory Edwina Currie - who makes no secret of her preference for wearing stockings - got the men's vote .sx She scored 29 per cent , with Labour's Harriet Harman second on 18 and the SDP's Rosie Barnes third on 14 .sx We also asked who you would take with you to a DESERT ISLAND .sx Mr Major ( 19 per cent ) and Edwina ( 17 ) were tops with women and men .sx The men's list has two surprises - Mr Ashdown ( 9 ) and Mr Major ( 8) .sx Leaving out the possibility of a big gay vote , it seems some marooned men rate practical help higher than creature comforts .sx .sx Mr Kinnock's troubles go on and on .sx As well as top scores for untrustworthiness ( 44 per cent ) and being obnoxious ( 19 ) , he is also No .sx 1 WAFFLER .sx But it isn't all bad news - Neil is also the WITTIEST MP .sx He scored 19 per cent , beating Left-winger Dennis Skinner ( 12) .sx Maggie Thatcher isn't far behind in unpopularity .sx .sx She is the second-least trusted ( 15 per cent ) and second most obnoxious ( 17) .sx Her 6 per cent honesty rating is behind Kinnock's 9 per cent .sx The big consolation for Mr Kinnock is that 78 per cent of people say they voted mainly for a party , not a leader .sx But if he went , deputy leader Roy Hattersley would not be a popular choice to TAKE OVER .sx He polled only 14 per cent , against Shadow Chancellor John Smith's 29 per cent .sx Michael 'Tarzan' Heseltine ( 29 ) is top choice to succeed Mr Major , followed by Douglas Hurd ( 17) .sx Favoured substitute for the Libs' Paddy Ashdown is David Steel ( 27 ) , followed by David Owen ( 23 ) , who isn't even in the party !sx .sx A WHO´S WHO of the Cabinet and their Labour shadows shows people's knowledge of politicians is shadowy indeed .sx Apart from party leaders , only Chancellor Norman Lamont ( 53 per cent ) was known to more than half those polled .sx .sx Favourite And 56 per cent want the VOTING SYSTEM changed to proportional representation , favoured by the Liberals .sx Labour is rated best able to deal with the health service , housing , public transport , unemployment and education .sx The Tories are rated best on foreign affairs , defence , inflation , Europe and the economy .sx Last night , the Tories were 8-13 favourites with bookies William Hill to win the next election .sx Labour were 6-5 .sx .sx