Was the Chancellor’s Spring Statement dead on arrival?
The OBR’s forecast was prepared before the war in Iran broke out
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Don’t abolish the OBR
Scrapping the body won’t change the difficult choices that Britain faces
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Rachel Reeves’ rage-bait Budget
The Chancellor’s set piece was a masterclass in political humiliation
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The OBR is pushing us into a doom loop
It has been making us poorer for 14 years
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The OBR has lost the battle, but won the war
Rachel Reeves should have chosen a different bogeyman
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Rachel Reeves’s Budget leaks early
The document was released in error more than 40 minutes before the Chancellor’s speech
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Rachel Reeves’s great tax dilemma
Will the Chancellor have to break her pledges to save her fiscal rules?
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The OBR is always wrong
Making economic policy by forecast is driving Britain in circles.
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Britain is growing old disgracefully
The OBR says that Britain can no longer afford to exist with its current fiscal policy.
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Don’t blame the OBR for Britain’s economic woes
We can’t spend more without taxing more and we can’t tax less without spending less.
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How the OBR became the Department for Austerity
Governments should not use economic forecasts as a cover for political choices.
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Tory MPs attack the OBR at their peril
The lesson of the Truss debacle is that an antagonistic approach to institutions can spook the markets.
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Ireland booms while Brexit Britain whimpers next door
While Joe Biden visits Ireland, Brexiteers said their closest EU neighbour would be “doomed” – now it’s set to be…
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Jeremy Hunt didn’t fix anything
The Budget did nothing to address the UK’s fundamental problems: Brexit and a deeply unequal economy.
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Jeremy Hunt’s economic optimism will collide with voters’ realities
Telling people that things are getting better while they still feel worse off is always a risky strategy.
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The myth of the “fiscal black hole” has been exposed
How did a £70bn “hole” become a £30bn “surplus”? The answer is that we’re doing economic policy wrong.
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Is any Tory capable of feeling shame?
Liz Truss is merely the latest senior Conservative to blame everyone but herself for the damage inflicted on the country.
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Leader: Why we need honesty on migration
Successive governments have relied on high migration to disguise the structural weaknesses of the British economy.
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What’s wrong with the British economy?
Our leaders have had no strategy and no vision of the country’s place in a deglobalising, post-Brexit landscape.
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