I have now reviewed most of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasts issued with the 2023 budget. I wrote my review in a series of
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Having listened to the budget with the main intention of talking about it on Radio 2 immediately after the Chancellor sat down, and having since
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Jeremy Hunt is supposedly going to announce measures to get those over the age of 50 who have dropped out of the workforce back to
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It is Budget Day. As a consequence I will be in Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 studio at about 13.30 today, discussing the budget as
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If UK government ministers were to be believed the cost of servicing UK government debt creates such a burden on its finances that austerity is
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Of the latest batch of new glossary items I have posted about this morning the most important for many readers of the blog may be
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The following items have been added to the glossary over the last couple of days: Offshore financial centre General anti-avoidance rule GDP per capita Fiscal
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I got this message from GB News in the last hour: The message was followed by a call. I made it clear to the producer
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I have posted three new items to the glossary this morning, all in time for tomorrow’s budget. They are on: Fiscal rules Fiscal choices Fiscal
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