Politics 22 March 2012 Budget 2012: the front pages Pensioners hit and 50p tax rate scrapped: what the papers have to say about George Osborne's Budget By Samira Shackle Daily Mail Daily Telegraph Guardian Independent Times Financial Times Sun Subscribe to The New Statesman today for only £1 per week Subscribe Mirror Content from our partners The future of exams Spotlight Skills are the key to economic growth Graham Hasting-Evans Skills Transition is investing in UK skills and jobs Spotlight Related Economics Labour’s deregulation plan is a risk to the economy Comment Why celebrity surrogacy announcements provoke such anger Comment When will Labour tell the truth about Scotland?