Is the Office for Budget Responsibility really protecting the UK economy, or enforcing austerity? I argue that the OBR was designed to remove democratic control
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I made a podcast after the Budget for Politics Joe. I was interviewed by Ava Santana. They have now turned this into a video, but
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Throughout the weekend, I kept asking myself whether I should write a blog post about Rachel Reeves misrepresenting the economic background to her Budget, but
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Rachel Reeves just gave us a masterclass in how NOT to run a budget. We got leaks, U-turns, political theatre, but almost no real economic
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Rachel Reeves’ Budget this week has several themes. She gave the City what it wanted. She spent almost nothing on anything that might add value
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For those wanting a slightly more Scottish spin on the Budget, this was my interview for The National, yesterday:

This video is a little unusual. It is a recording of what I said on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday. We’ve
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The Treasury yesterday produced a distributional analysis of the Budget, plus last year’s fiasco from Reeves. They said: This document sets out estimates of the impact
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Rachel Reeves says her budget delivers stability. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s charts tell a very different story. High interest rates, low investment, falling profitability,
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