{"id":81157,"date":"2025-03-27T06:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81157"},"modified":"2025-03-27T06:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:32:13","slug":"are-the-obr-really-independent-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/03\/27\/are-the-obr-really-independent-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the OBR really independent experts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/68e5e994-7f8c-4e13-85c0-1597fa17a69e?segmentId=bf7fa2fd-67ee-cdfa-8261-b2a3edbdf916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Giles notes in the FT<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-06.29.11-550x458.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-06.29.11-550x458.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-06.29.11-360x300.png 360w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-06.29.11-768x640.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-06.29.11-480x400.png 480w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-06.29.11.png 1106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Independent?<\/p>\n<p>Experts?<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>The evidence to support the claim is hard to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Chris Giles notes in the FT this morning: Independent? Experts? Really? The evidence to support the claim is hard to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81159,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157\/revisions\/81159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}