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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