‘Hey, big spenders’: what the papers say about Sunak’s 2021 autumn budget

Chancellor's spending plans and cuts to taxes on draught beer get top billing in today's newspaper front pages

• Chancellor limits spending to start building election war chest

Images of Rishi Sunak raising either a pint glass or a Budget box dominated Thursday's front pages as editors sought to parse the chancellor's big spending plans in the wake of Britain's unexpectedly strong economic recovery this year.

The Guardian describes Sunak's post-Covid plan as spend now, cut taxes later" with the intention to cut taxes before the next general election. The paper also notes Sunak has been criticised for a lack of green measures" ahead of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.