The politics were not hard to understand. Liz Truss’s imploding mini-budget, sparked in part by her decision to skip running ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has criticised how the Office for Budget Responsibility watchdog has analysed the impact of ...

Sir Keir Starmer said Labour is offering ‘fundamental change’ in the local election campaign as he announced a £30 million ...

You could blame Truss and her mini-Budget cock-up for giving the OBR the power to wag the government dog with its ...

The prime minister has been saying that the government’s official forecaster - the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) - ...

A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues ...

Britain learnt the hard way about the importance of not letting governments mark their own homework. Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s unfunded tax cuts in September 2022 were pushed through ...

Labour says its welfare reforms are designed to help people into work – but MPs might have to take that on faith ...

The UK Government has pledged to maintain the Triple Lock, however, many will instead be thrown into paying more tax due to ...

The UK is less susceptible to US tariffs, and not just because it was hit with a lower rate than its EU neighbours. But the impact of a weaker US and European economy could be much more significant.

Rachel Reeves had boosted economic growth here, cut spending there, and forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) placed her back on course to comply with her self-imposed targets.