The Office of Budget Responsibility becomes the story, says PROFESSOR PATRICK MINFORD



WITH this Budget the OBR moved from its intended status as an independent ‘watchdog’ providing uncontroversial forecasts of the public finances, into the spotlight as the purveyor of a forecast widely regarded as biased downwards in a serious way for a serious period, the next five years; so scuppering the well-meaning hopes of Philip Hammond to provide an upbeat Budget.

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