Newspaper headlines: Budget giveaways and gloom

Reaction to the Budget is carried on every front page - with the Daily Telegraph saying the chancellor delivered an optimistic speech in which he attempted to sell the dream of home ownership, with a cut in stamp duty for first time buyers.

The Sun's editorial is "delighted" that he has adopted measures to put cash back in people's pockets.

The Times dubs him "Feelgood Phil" and says that a man described as the "Eeyore chancellor" popped up as a "light entertainer", trying to please everyone. But the paper concludes that, because of a poor economic outlook, he is still probably living on "borrowed time".

For the Daily Mail, the Budget was shrewd, well-judged and optimistic.

Under the headline: "Eeyore no more!" it says that Mr Hammond has brought austerity to a screeching halt, with a £25bn spending spree. But the paper thinks he should nevertheless be very glum about the extent of Britain's debt.

According to Huffpost UK, the budget was "No boom, all gloom", with Mr Hammond's attempt to get the country "fit for the future" undermined just three minutes into his speech when he revealed the economy was "as fit as an ageing smoker with a weight problem". And, it says, that is even before Brexit.

But under the headline, "Don't Panic", the Daily Express reports that the chancellor has put aside £3bn as a war chest in case Britain has to leave the EU without a deal. It says Mr Hammond signalled that the UK would not put up with EU bullying, stating "no one should doubt our resolve".

The Guardian is one of many papers to picture the chancellor scratching his head outside 11 Downing Street. It says he struggled to lift the gloom, in a budget blighted by weak economic growth.

For the Financial Times, the grim economic outlook is overshadowing Mr Hammond's promise to fix Britain's housing market.

The i dubs it "Hammond's hard hat budget" and says dismal growth forecasts suggest "challenging years ahead".

The Daily Mirror calls it a no hope Budget. "Thanks for nothing," it says.

The Spectator says that the Budget shows Mr Hammond is not the man "to take the battle to Jeremy Corbyn". It says the centrepiece of his speech - to build 300,000 new homes by the mid 2020s - is hard to take seriously, without a thorough rethink of the planning system and building regulations.

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The Daily Telegraph reflects on the life sentence given to the former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic who presided over the 1995 genocide at Srebrenica - Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.

The Guardian describes Mladic as the "genocidal butcher of Bosnia", noting he had always vowed he would never be captured alive.

The Times recalls that the Bosnian war cost the lives of 100,000 people in a nation the size of Scotland, and was pursued with a savagery unparalleled in Europe since the defeat of Nazi Germany.

It says the capture and conviction of Mladic was evidence that perpetrators of genocide would be hunted down and brought to justice.

In an editorial, the i newspaper warns the downfall of Robert Mugabe will count for little if the political edifice that enabled his tyranny fails to fall with him.

The opposition Zimbabwean paper, Newsday, is critical of the ruling Zanu-PF party, warning that "greed, discrimination, corruption, selfishness, incompetency and vindictiveness" will trigger another coup if it does not reform.

The South African Mail and Guardian says there are lessons from Zimbabwe for its own long standing President, Jacob Zuma. It says that even for national leaders it is always possible that "the blade of the guillotine is just around the corner".