Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged to “help, not hammer” families when she delivers her Budget .

Ms Reeves will lay out her tax and spending plans in the Commons on Wednesday, where she is widely expected to introduce tax hikes.

Ahead of the announcement, she has faced pressure from north of the border to scrap the two-child benefit cap and the windfall tax, as well as introduce a similar levy on commercial banks to pay for a £300 cut to energy bills for all but the wealthiest in the UK.

In the hours before the Budget, SNP economy spokesman Dave Doogan urged the Chancellor to focus on improving the situation for families, describing the Labour-run administration’s record on the economy as “a disaster”.

“Voters were promised change but things have got even worse – and now Rac

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