Britain's Most Unpopular Chancellor in Decades Faces Another Big Test

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : An economic growth spurt at the beginning of the year, fueled by government spending, has petered out.
50% : Ms. Truss bypassed the watchdog before her chancellor announced the tax-and-spending proposals that sank the markets.
48% : " Fickle forecasts complicate the calculations Three weeks ago, Ms. Reeves gave a speech in which she set the tone for the budget and seemed to lay the ground for raising taxes in a way that would potentially break Labour's pre-election promises.
47% : Recent reports that Ms. Reeves wouldn't raise income tax rates, after speculation that she would, were met with another jump in borrowing costs.
46% : Ms. Reeves could build up a big buffer against her rules on debt and deficits by raising tens of billions of pounds in taxes, which would probably require breaking Labour's promises.
44% : Each spasm in response to signs of a laxer fiscal stance has recalled the short premiership of Liz Truss, whose tax-and-spend plan three years ago memorably shook markets as investors lost faith in Britain's fiscal credibility.
43% : The challenges are "mainly a symptom of quite how difficult it is to resolve low growth, high interest rates, disappointing public services, high debt and historically high tax rates," said Ruth Curtice, the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, a think tank, and former director of fiscal policy at Britain's Treasury.
42% : For her second straight budget, Ms. Reeves, the chancellor of the Exchequer, is expected to raise taxes and cut spending.
42% : In her first budget, she raised taxes by the equivalent of over $50 billion.
41% : In government, it would not raise taxes on working people, ruling out increases in income tax rates, national insurance and value-added tax, which are also the country's largest revenue raisers.
41% : She has tried to make savings, such as by cutting winter fuel payments to pensioners and slashing spending on welfare, but these measures have been torpedoed by members on the left of her party.
40% : Rachel Reeves, who has had a bruising tenure as the country's top economic official, is set to announce tax and spending measures that risk stoking more discontent.
40% : That was not helped by a recent study that suggested the economic fallout of Brexit was worse than previously estimated, shrinking the economy by up to 8 percent and slashing investment by up to 18 percent.

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