I am doing live commentary on the budget on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 today from about 12.20pm onwards. I’m on with
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That’s 200,000 jobs in the private sector gone as Bloody Tuesday begins
The National Housing Federation has predicted that forthcoming housing cuts will lead to the loss (or lack of creation) of 200,000 jobs, and to 350,000
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Isn’t that what I said George?
The Guardian reports that George Osborne said to Andrew Marr yesterday: What’s controversial with some in my party is raising CGT. Here is a tax
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OBR: Let’s assume we’ve solved the tax gap problem
The Office for Budget Responsibility’s first report continues to provide amusement at the breadth of its gall. Take this on the VAT gap: The judgement
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OBR: The winners are business profits, the losers are ordinary people and the reality is that this is fantasy
The OBR makes clear who it thinks the winners and losers from their modest growth forecasts for the next few years will be in their
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Office for Budget Responsibility says let the market set interest rates – because we won’t forecast them
The Office for Budget Responsibility’s catalogue of forecasting fun includes a host of goodies. For example, take this one on interest rates: We have assumed
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The Office for Budget Responsibility: a catalogue of blunders
The Office for Budget Responsibility — George Osborne’s excuse for cuts — has presented its first report in advance of net week’s budget. I’m not
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