Britain’s fiscal watchdog, reckoned she had over-egged the savings by a billion-plus. Cue a hasty rejig and even deeper cuts.

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will on Wednesday have to respond to the OBR’s forecast for taxes, spending and borrowing ...

The chair of Britain's Office for Budget Responsibility, Richard Hughes, said on Tuesday that he had asked to serve a second five-year term heading the body that produces independent growth and ...

Of all the blunders Rachel Reeves has made since becoming Chancellor, none has been greater than her empowerment of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). This 'independent' forecaster ...

Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility, a slimmed-down version of the Congressional Budget Office in the US, may be just ...

UK Office for Budget Responsibility questioned over Spring Statement [This post contains video, click to play] Source: ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility has halved the UK growth forecast for 2025 from 2% to 1%, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. However, the fiscal watchdog said that while growth has been ...

But the only reason Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will address the House of Commons on Wednesday is because, by law, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is required to produce two ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has given its latest take on the economy, and it's full of big changes to its economic projections but also plenty of red flags about the levels of ...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves did the minimum to preserve her credibility with markets when she restored her fiscal buffer to ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will acknowledge she needs to go ‘further and faster to kickstart growth’ in her spring statement .

Britain is threatened with further tax rises within months, the Office for Budget Responsibility warned after Rachel Reeves left the economy on a knife edge. The Chancellor is already forecast to ...