The Daily Mail gives its whole-hearted support to William Hague's plans to get rid of the rule - which prevents acquitted suspects from being tried again for the same offence.
The paper says: "It is just the sort of cheeky, populist stroke which Peter Mandelson might have pulled when New Labour was wrenching the initiative from John Major's tired government."
The Guardian also places the policy in the context of what it calls the Conservatives' populist agenda. The paper sees it as the third element of a three-card trick - race, tax and now crime.
But The Express warns against becoming too gung-ho on such a sensitive issue. The Opposition is right to pressurise the government, it argues, but ministers are right to proceed with caution.
Ruined streets
Photographs of the ruined streets of the Dutch town of Enschede appear in most of the papers - for all of them, it is their first opportunity to report on Saturday's devastating explosion at a fireworks warehouse.
The reports from the scene have a similar ring. For The Independent the epicentre of the blast resembles "a war-ravaged Grozny or Beirut" rather than a prosperous European town.
The Guardian speaks of a "a war zone" in a sleepy residential area - while The Times says it was Mother's Day in Holland yesterday, but nobody celebrated.
The Mirror is incensed by the alleged behaviour of 18 Railtrack executives on a team-building exercise in the New Forest in Hampshire. According to the paper, they went on a drunken rampage at their hotel on the day after the public inquiry opened into the Paddington rail crash.
'Outrageous and disgusting'
In a statement, Railtrack's chief executive, Gerald Corbett, condemns their behaviour as "utterly outrageous and disgusting".
One of those involved has been suspended - but The Mirror demands the sackings of the senior managers who let such a jolly away-day take place at such a sensitive time.
The main story in the Mail is a report that tests on organic foods have found alarmingly high levels of potentially deadly bacteria.
According to research conducted by the University of Georgia in the United States, a hundred times more cells from the E. coli bacteria were discovered in organic lettuce and Brussels sprouts than in non-organic varieties.
The paper says that, although it was a harmless variant of E. coli, the findings will alarm millions of people who switched to organic foods following the BSE crisis and concerns over genetically-modified food.
The dubious reputation enjoyed by the Vikings is apparently being contradicted by new archaeological discoveries in Canada.
The Independent says the Vikings were supposed to be the lager louts of the first millennium - but it seems they were the pioneers of transatlantic trade, establishing extensive links with an Eskimo-like people living on Baffin Island.
Adopting one of the current buzz-words of governments and business alike, one archaeologist describes the Norsemens' activities as "the beginning of globalisation".