Poll: 44% want new Chancellor

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By a margin of 44% to 27%, people taking part in the YouGov survey for the Sunday Times said that Mr Darling should be removed from the Treasury.

The poll gave Conservatives David Cameron and George Osborne a six-point lead over Mr Darling and Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the best people to trust to run the economy, while Tories enjoyed a nine-point advantage over Labour as a whole.

It came a week after speculation over Mr Darling's future was sparked when the Sunday Times quoted an unnamed "Labour MP close to No 10" as saying that people around Mr Brown were talking about the need to move him in a summer reshuffle.

The survey revealed gloom over Britain's economic prospects in the coming year, following Bank of England Governor Mervyn King's warning last week of higher inflation and a slowdown in growth.

Just 12% of those questioned said they thought their household finances would improve over the next 12 months, while 50% think they will get worse. Some 34% thought house prices in their area would fall over the next 12 months, against only 23% expecting a rise.

Questioned on their voting intentions, some 41% of those taking part said they would back the Tories (down two points on a similar poll last month), 32% Labour (down one) and 16% the Liberal Democrats (up two). The overall Conservative lead was down marginally from 10 points to nine compared to the last comparable poll.

Mr Darling last week scaled back plans to crack down on wealthy foreigners living in Britain who are classed as non-domiciled for taxation purposes, issuing a "clarification" that upcoming legislation would not require them to reveal additional information about overseas income.

But the survey suggests voters believe he should have been harder on them, with 60% saying he should have toughened up his proposals, against just 21% who said it was right for non-doms to pay less tax because of the jobs they create.

YouGov surveyed 2,469 adults online for the Sunday Times on February 14 and 15.