Reeves admits Britain is 'angry' as she braces to break tax vows

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : And I will push ahead with the biggest drive for growth in a generation.' The benefit cap limits means-tested benefits such as universal credit and child tax credit payments to the first two children, costing affected families a typical £3,455 in lost benefits for each additional child.
58% : But she is thought to be relying on a patchwork of smaller measures to fill a funding shortfall estimated at up to £30billion, after making an extraordinary U-turn on increasing income tax.
54% : She already has the grim distinction of having delivered the biggest tax-raising Budget on record - around £41billion.
48% : Potentially the biggest revenue-raiser will be extending the long-running freeze on tax thresholds for another two years.
46% : Ms Reeves has vowed to reduce the costs of Government debt and is expected to take steps to increase the buffer she has against future economic shocks to avoid having to keep coming back for more tax in future budgets.
44% : She added: 'I will not return Britain back to austerity, nor will I lose control of public spending with reckless borrowing.
40% : The Chancellor is gearing up to impose another scorching round of tax hikes in her big set-piece at 12.30pm as she desperately tries to fill a black hole in the finances.
40% : A brutal assault on pension tax reliefs and a 'mansion tax' are among the other moves expected in the critical package.
38% : Ms Reeves looks on track to increase taxes by more in just 16 months than Gordon Brown managed during a decade in No11.
36% : 'I have to be honest that the damage done from austerity, a chaotic Brexit and the pandemic were worse than we thought.
32% : The humiliating ditching of wider reforms to welfare and the reversal of winter fuel allowance cuts have contributed to a grim situation for Ms Reeves.
31% : Rachel Reeves admitted Britain is 'angry' today as ordinary workers brace for Budget pain after weeks of chaos The Chancellor is gearing up to impose another scorching round of tax hikes in her big set-piece at 12.30pm as she desperately tries to fill a black hole in the finances Ms Reeves has already blamed a bewildering array of factors from Brexit and Tory austerity to Donald Trump for her woes There are warnings that markets will hammer the Pound and drive up the cost of servicing the UK's massive debt mountain unless the Chancellor shows she has a 'credible' plan.
19% : She has already blamed a bewildering array of factors from Brexit and Tory austerity to Donald Trump for her woes.

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