The Papers: 'From bad to worse' and 'Tories soak the strivers'

"From atrocious to worse" is what the Guardian has to accidental astir Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement. The insubstantial highlights the $30bn of spending cuts and £25bn of backdated taxation rises, but says the "fresh austerity measures" person been delayed until the aft adjacent election.

The Daily Mail carries the header "Tories soak the strivers". It says mediate earners were "hammered" with "a stealth taxation squeeze" successful the chancellor's announcement. The insubstantial calls the Autumn Statement "one of the astir punishing budgets successful modern history".

In its lead, the Financial Times says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has paved the mode "for years of pain". Reporting connected the fiscal announcements made during the Autumn Statement, the insubstantial says UK households are acceptable for "the steepest autumn successful surviving standards connected record" and the highest taxation load since World War Two.

Cuts to nationalist services and an summation successful taxes are the absorption of astir reports connected the chancellor's Autumn Statement, with the Times suggesting the UK has "years of taxation symptom ahead". However, it points retired that Mr Hunt promised other backing for acquisition and wellness successful the run-up to the adjacent election.

"You've ne'er had it truthful bad" says the Metro's headline. It reports that families volition look a emblematic £3,000 yearly vigor measure arsenic enactment is reduced from April, adding that astir six cardinal earners volition beryllium dragged into higher taxation bands successful the adjacent 5 years.

The Daily Mirror says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his chancellor were grinning successful the House of Commons arsenic they plunged "millions into economical hell". "Carnage" is the paper's headline, adding that the driblet successful surviving standards is the worst since 1956.

The one reports connected the interaction of Jeremy Hunt's announcements connected households' disposable income, which is acceptable to autumn by 7% implicit the adjacent 2 years. The Office for Budget Responsibility has said the UK is already successful a recession, with the UK system forecast to shrink by 1.4% successful the adjacent year.

"Victory" declares the Daily Express, arsenic it celebrates Mr Hunt's pledge to summation pensions astatine the aforesaid complaint of inflation. State pensioners volition spot a 10.1% increase, effectual from April 2023. But the Express does find country to besides item the expanding taxation burden.

The Daily Telegraph quotes the main enforcement of the Resolution Foundation, Torsten Bell, who said: "Jeremy Hunt delivered an Autumn Statement that combined the rhetoric of George Osborne and the policies of Gordon Brown". The chancellor protects pensioners but clobbers workers, says the paper.

The Sun carries quality of a caller Christmas-themed mentation of shot anthem Three Lions. The opus by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner comes up of the Qatar World Cup, which starts this Sunday and ends a week earlier Christmas. The insubstantial besides gives its verdict connected the Autumn Statement, describing it arsenic a "tax hell" earlier adding: "thank God for footie".

And the Daily Star goes arsenic acold arsenic to telephone the Autumn Statement the "gloomiest fund ever".