Rachel Reeves has launched a leak inquiry after it emerged the official spending watchdog has warned the Chancellor is on ...

Treasury launches leak inquiry over reports OBR has cut UK growth forecast - The watchdog is reported to have cut its growth ...

Rachel Reeves said she would not be 'coming back with more tax increases' last year but now faces making a U-turn ...

Britain’s tax and spending watchdog is “vulnerable to bias” because of pressure from overly optimistic politicians, an ...

Rachel Reeves is "flirting with recession" after figures revealed the UK economy narrowly avoided a contraction at the end of ...

We will all be paying even higher taxes very soon. There will not be many jobs, and we may not even be able to switch on the ...

Has Rachel Reeves broken her fiscal rules? It’s been speculated for some time now that the Chancellor lost her headroom when ...

Responding to reports that the OBR has downgraded growth forecasts and the £9 billion in headroom has been wiped out, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said: ...

The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast. As the OBR comes up with its forecast, ...

Reports of a downgraded OBR forecast come ahead of the publication of the latest GDP growth figures on Thursday, which cover ...

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The review said that forcing the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to accept government policy announcements at face value means its economic forecasts are “open to gaming”. It comes amid ...