It was just a few months ago that Sir Keir Starmer criticised the Conservatives for trying to undermine the OBR. Following a row with Jeremy Hunt, the former chancellor, over the autumn Budget and ...

The OBR also raised its expectation for unemployment and net migration - the number of people immigrating to the UK minus those emigrating. The unemployment rate, the percentage of people out of ...

It was compact and graceful, harrowing and illuminating. “Eric LaRue,” directed by the actor Michael Shannon, is built around a similar situation, as it works its way toward a confrontation ...

An adaptation of Brett Neveu's 2002 play of the same name, "Eric LaRue" follows the emotional journeys of parents Janice (Judy Greer) and Ron LaRue (Alexander Skarsgård) in the wake of a deadly ...

Update (15:30 GMT): We got an answer (of sorts)! Over on the OBR’s EFO press conference stream, we asked: Why are you still forecasting active sales of gilts from the Asset Purchase Facility ...

Union leader Paul Nowak has questioned the role of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility following Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement, saying long-term government decisions ...

The Prime Minister said he 'personally struggled' with the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) approach in assessing a package of welfare reforms in the Spring Statement. While in opposition ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said on Wednesday that it expects UK gross domestic product (GDP) to rise by 1 per cent in 2025. Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to tear down red tape ...

That’s according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the independent watchdog that checks Reeves’s tax-and-spend plans to see if her sums add up. The huge shortfall – equivalent ...

The OBR’s failure to take this into account caught the Treasury by surprise and left ministers needing to find millions of pounds of extra welfare cuts at the last minute. Sir Keir has ...

Labour’s plan to support more people into work through cost-cutting welfare reforms has been called into question by the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) own economic forecast.