UK government borrowing exceeded official forecasts made just last month, highlighting the fragile state of the public ...

While the Conservatives have insisted they provided all necessary information, Reeves pushed forward with the Budget Responsibility Law as part of her pledge to further strengthen the OBR to avoid ...

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 ...

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

The minister told the BBC the changes were prompted by the spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), taking “a slightly different number” than the Government in its ...

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 halved its forecast for growth in gross domestic product in 2025 from 2 per cent to just 1 per cent. The watchdog's assessment also indicated the Chancellor ...

We're about to hear from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) - a body of independent experts that effectively marks the government's homework. Earlier on, it published its latest economic ...

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 ...

Growth slowed in the second half of last year, and the Office for Budget Responsibility, an independent watchdog, halved its forecast for growth this year to 1 percent from 2 percent. It said a ...

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 ...

The Chancellor will set out the measures as she delivers her spring statement in response to a gloomy economic assessment by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The watchdog’s assessment ...