Rachel Reeves’s tax-hiking budget has done little to improve public confidence in the Chancellor’s ability to continue in her role, according to a Daily Express poll. A poll conducted in the wake of this week’s budget, which saw huge tax rises announced once more despite Labour’s pre-election manifesto pledges, revealed that 99% of respondents feltthe Chancellor should resign.

The poll, which was responded to by nearly 6,000 people, proved to be a damning indictment of the Chancellor’s performance, with taxes now set to rise by a further £26billion following the Reeves’s second tax-hiking budget. The increases come a year after the Chancellor’s first budget, where she announced tax rises of around £40bn but pledged not to “come back for more next year”. Ms Reeves faced media interviews on Sunday (November 30) as she attempted to justify her decisions and counter claims that she misled the public over the state of the nation’s finances.

Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC, the Chancellor said she “of course” did not lie to the public when she set out a gloomy economic picture at the beginning of November.

She told broadcasters: “Anyone who thinks that there was no repair job to be done on the public finances, I just don’t accept that.

“We needed to build more resilience, more headroom into our economy. That’s what I did, along with that investment in the NHS and cutting bills for families.”

On Sunday, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme that Ms Reeves should resign over her comments.

She said: “The Chancellor called an emergency press conference telling everyone about how terrible the state of the finances were and now we have seen that the OBR had told her the complete opposite.

“She was raising taxes to pay for welfare.

“The only thing that was unfunded was the welfare payments which she has made and she’s doing it on the backs of a lot of people out there who are working very hard and getting poorer.

“And because of that, I believe she should resign.”

The budget saw the Chancellor announce the removal of the two-child benefit cap, a move that has long been demanded by figures on the left of the Labour Parliamentary Party.

Reeves defended her decision, saying the Government was “choosing children”.

She said: “The people I was thinking about were kids who I know in my constituency go to school hungry and go to bed in cold and damp homes, and from April next year those parents will have a bit more support to help their kids.”

It is expected that the removal will cost the public purse £3.1 billion over the remainder of the decade.