Brits appear to be running out of patience with Labour as a poll showed the proportion saying the government taxes and spends too much at a six-year high.

YouGov research found 45 per cent believe the burden of the state is too great, while a fifth thought taxes and spending was too low.

The level of dissatisfaction has not been worse since the firm started tracking it in 2019, while just 11 per cent said the balance was right.

It comes after Rachel Reeves hammered the country with another tax bomb Budget last month, with the huge sums raised partly going on more benefits spending.

The Chancellor has been embroiled in a bitter row over whether she misrepresented forecasts from the OBR watchdog to justify her latest raid.

The tax burden is due to reach a new peak as a proportion of GDP in records that go back more than 300 years.

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The poll comes after Rachel Reeves (pictured today) hammered the country with another tax bomb Budget last month, with the huge sums raised partly going on more benefits spending

YouGov research found 45 per cent believe the burden of the state is too great, while a fifth thought taxes and spending was too low

After the ‘stealth’ freeze on thresholds was extended by another three years, a quarter of the working population is set to be paying higher or top rate tax by 2031.

That is up from just 15 per cent when the freeze began in 2021.

The polling, conducted between December 6 and 8, emerged as the Tories vowed a major crackdown on benefits if they return to power.

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Kemi Badenoch said it would be a party ‘crusade’ to slash the welfare bill so that it paid to work and create ‘an opportunity state’ in Britain.

In a speech in London this morning she said she and shadow cabinet minister James Cleverly had ‘worked our way up’.

She referred to her time spent working at McDonalds and New Look when she was younger, adding: ‘I bet many of you here this morning have similar stories, but today we are seeing a lot of people not taking jobs because they think that those jobs are beneath them.

‘Labour sent a very clear message that if you work hard, and you do the right thing, you will get less, but if you are on benefits, you will get more.’

She said the number of people of working age claiming benefits was ‘completely crazy’ and the Government was taxing ‘the people in our country who get out of bed and make things happen.’

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Kemi Badenoch said it would be a Tory ‘crusade’ to slash the welfare bill so that it paid to work and create ‘an opportunity state’ in Britain