Newspaper headlines: £350bn 'war chest' to save UK economy

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Rishi Sunak unveiled the £350bn package of measures on Tuesday

Most of the front pages focus on what the Daily Mail calls "Rishi's £350bn kiss of life".

The Express describes the coronavirus rescue package, announced by the chancellor on Tuesday, as a "war chest to keep Britain in business".

Its leader suggests that "as many in the country prepare to self-isolate with their livelihoods uncertain, this will be a massive relief and comfort".

The Sun is also wholeheartedly behind the move, saying, "the colossal bailout - more than twice what it cost Britain to rescue our banks in 2008 - is what the Sun wanted to hear".

But it does strike a note of caution - with the observation that "as impressive as this rescue package is, UK plc will need even more if this disaster drags on for many months".

On its front page, the Times points out that Rishi Sunak "stopped short of offering larger grants, rather than loans, to businesses".

And it says he has faced criticism for promising mortgage relief to home owners - while not giving details of any measures to help those who rent. The government insists these will follow.

The i also focuses on the issue of tenants, contrasting the lack of action in the UK with a scheme in New York, under which landlords have agreed to abide by a voluntary 90-day moratorium on evictions.

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The HuffPost UK website highlights differences in how the chancellor and the prime minister approached the news conference.

Boris Johnson, it suggests, was acting as "the nation's cheerer-upper - in a way that seemed to jar with the public mood". It continues by saying "at times it seemed that Sunak was the grown up politician in the room".

HuffPost acknowledges that Mr Johnson won the election partly by promising to confound what he called "the doomsters and the gloomsters". But it concludes that "he is clearly still finding difficult the switch from campaign mode to governing mode".

The Financial Times looks at the impact of the coronavirus on the property market. It says that a post-election "bounce" in house sales is rapidly fading.

Estate agents say this is because sellers are concerned about the potential infection risk posed by people coming to view their homes - while buyers fear being exposed to the virus when they visit properties.

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been released from prison in Iran because of the outbreak

There is a photo on the front of the Telegraph of the British-Iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Radcliffe. She is among tens of thousands of prisoners to have been temporarily released by the authorities in Iran, because of the pandemic. She is smiling - but a security tag is clearly visible on her ankle.

Under the headline "get Naz home", the Mirror's leader welcomes the move - but says it's only a "tiny step in the right direction".

Finally, the Guardian responds to the official advice - encouraging people to stay away from pubs during the outbreak - by putting together a column called "view from the pub".

One drinker at the Duke of Wellington at Wareham in Dorset is quoted saying: "If and when the government says that we absolutely can't go out, I'll think about it. Until then, we're going to do our self-isolating right here".