The Office for Budget Responsibility used to be king for Labour. The country’s economic forecaster offered the party the chance to cement in the minds of the British electorate that its leaders ...

The state pension is coming under increasing scrutiny as the Labour government faces tough choices, one pension expert has ...

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 ...

Sir Keir Starmer has taken a swipe at the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, criticising the UK fiscal watchdog’s decision not to “score” the job creation impact of the government’s welfare ...

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

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 ...

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

Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) over its assessment of his welfare reforms. In his ...

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.

Typically, they face more pressure and exploitation, longer hours, higher prices or charges, they get less state support and face greater discrimination all as part of the war effort. Or, more ...

This necessitated the £40billion hammer blow of increased taxes, a dump of resources to an unreformed NHS and enhanced powers for a misfiring Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). Next came ...