Worries about health and wealth have surged across Britain since George Osborne delivered his last cuts-laden Budget, the National Office for Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer will argue that the economy is growing under the Con-Dem government as he puts public services under the knife in Parliament again today.

But a major ONS study of national wellbeing shows that the average income has fallen since the Con-Dems took office in 2010.