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 ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has conducted her Spring Statement, at the same time that the Office for Budget Responsibility released its forecast for the UK economy. There were some key announcements, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her Spring Statement, confirming the 2025 growth estimate for the UK has been halved to 1 per cent by the government's official forecaster ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Miles, a member of the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) Budget Responsibility Committee, told MPs: “If tariffs at 20%, 25% were put on the UK and maintained for five years, our ...

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