Newspaper headlines: Hunt ‘defies gloom’ and ‘Giveaway for the 1%’

Reaction to Jeremy Hunt’s first Budget as chancellor dominates Thursday’s papers. The Metro leads with the four areas Mr Hunt said he was focusing on in order to deliver economic growth: Enterprise, Employment, Education, and Everywhere. It adds that he hopes the measures laid out will help “demolish obstacles to work” and persuade up to 7 million people back into the workforce.