Christine Grace, a secondary school history teacher from Prestwick, Ayrshire, said there was nothing in the Budget to transform her family finances.

She said: "It was never going to be a Budget that was going to shock or disgust us in any way when it's 50 days before a General Election.

"We're just an average middle-income family and it's not a Budget that's aimed at us or to help us in any way.

"We're slap bang in the middle - the squeezed middle - so we won't benefit from the increase in the 40 per cent tax band, and we won't see much impact from the lower threshold either.

"It was obviously designed to help very specific groups in society, namely the old, because they are the key voters and they want to impress them.

"There was help for first-time house buyers but that doesn't benefit me either because we're already homeowners.

"On a personal level, there's nothing really that jumps out and makes my life better in any way."

The 35-year-old lives with her accountant husband, Adrian, 39, and son, Angus, 16 months.

She said she would have liked more money for the public sector.

"My husband works in the private sector and he goes up 3-4 per cent every single year. You hear about this public sector versus private sector and how wages in the private sector aren't going up - that's not true, at least in my husband's case.

"Bankers are still getting their bonuses and the private sector are still getting wage rises, and as a public sector worker that just doesn't happen.

"There is an inconsistency there. We're providing a public service and we're working just as hard as everyone else but there's no recognition of that.

"The whole talk about 'we've got more money and families have more income' - it's a load of nonsense. As a teacher I'm worse off now than I was in 2010 because we've had inflation going up and my wage only going up by 1 per cent, so in real terms I'm worse off.

"We both drive, so scrapping the fuel duty rise is good for us. My husband works in Falkirk so he drives a long way each day and that's going to help him. I drive to work three days a week.

"I do have an ISA, but I'm not one of these rich people who can afford to put the full whack away every year so taking some out doesn't really bother me anyway. Again, I think that's aimed to help your higher income earners - it's not designed to help me."