The OBR’s damning Budget verdict gives the Tories ammunition for years
Seldom has a budget come apart so quickly. It’s not that Rachel Reeves will be forced to take farms out of her new ...
Watch live: Office for Budget Responsibility responds to Rachel Reeves’ £40bn tax hikes
Richard Hughes holds a press conference after Labour's Budget was announced on Wednesday, 30 October. Rachel Reeves, the UK's ...
Reeves’ UK Budget Buffer Was Cut £18 Billion by OBR Correction
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves was left with £18 billion ($23 billion) less headroom in her spending plans after ...
Millions of working people will suffer from Reeves’s first Budget, warns OBR
Millions of working people will suffer from Rachel Reeves’ Budget tax raid, the Government’s fiscal watchdog has warned.
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Treasury should have told us about overspend by law, says OBR
Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, says officials have questions to answer as to why details of ...
UK budget watchdog adopts 'trust but verify' approach to finance ministry
Britain's Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has moved from an approach of trust towards the country's finance ministry to one of "trust but verify" after inaccurate spending forecasts provided ...
OBR error cut £18bn of headroom from Rachel Reeves’ Budget
An Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) error has left chancellor Rachel Reeves with £18bn less headroom in her spending ...
Why the Budget complicates life for the Bank of England
Just when it seemed that inflation was finally coming under control, the government has announced a big increase in public ...
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OBR casts doubt on Reeves’s £22bn ‘black hole’ claim
The official spending watchdog has cast doubt on claims that Rachel Reeves inherited a £22bn “black hole” from the ...
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Spending on projects early could lead to higher costs in the end – OBR chief
Injecting cash into Government projects early on rather than spreading it out over a longer period could “possibly” mean that ...
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Hunt’s Treasury broke the law by hiding ‘black hole’, OBR chief suggests
Treasury officials may have broken the law under the Tories by hiding the scale of the Budget “black hole” inherited by the ...
Reeves accepts tax-raising Budget likely to hit wage growth for workers
The chancellor tells the BBC businesses will have to absorb the costs of paying more National Insurance or give out smaller ...