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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Global cost of trade war revealed as Lammy says UK ‘preparing for the worst’ - Donald Trump to unveil sweeping tariffs on any ...

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 ...

Labour has merged two infrastructure bodies into one to “get a grip” on the delivery of new roads, schools and hospitals to ...

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 ...

The Prime Minister has said “all options remain on the table” for t he UK in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs. Businesses want a “calm and collected response to this, not a knee-jerk”, Sir Keir ...

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

Rachel Reeves confirmed the Office for Budget Responsibility had revised the UK’s growth forecast for 2025 from 2% in the autumn to just 1% today The Chancellor laid out further benefits cuts ...