"Chancellor wallops workers", declares the Sun, external, while the Times opts for, external "high welfare, high tax", as the front pages deliver their verdicts on the Budget. "Despite all of the promises", says the leader in the Daily Express, external, "Labour did what it always does, put up taxes". The Daily Telegraph points out , externalit should all come as "little surprise" that a socialist government is "wedded to taxing, spending and borrowing". The Guardian says, external the Budget "has done its job politically" -- and that "whispers" around the prime minister and chancellor's future "have subsided". The Daily Mail also suggests, external Rachel Reeves will "live to fight another day" despite the entire Budget being leaked by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
