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2025November › 27

OBR

7 months ago

The Budget watchdog has vowed to deliver answers within days as it drafts in leading cybersecurity expert Ciaran Martin (pictured) for a rapid inquiry into its humiliating budget leak.
The OBR refused the chancellor’s request to count the agreements in its growth forecast
Richard Hughes said he was 'personally mortified' after the OBR's Budget assessment was made public before Rachel Reeves addressed the Commons.
The OBR was left humiliated on Wednesday when it prematurely published its latest fiscal outloook before the Chancellor's Budget.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she 'had' to impose more pain on the country even though the Treasury's own watchdog only told her there was a £6billion hole in the public finances.

The chancellor’s statement will be remembered for the many taxes it raised, rather than the big one – income tax – it did not

Rachel Reeves’s chancellorship was already balanced on a knife-edge, even …

Chancellor axes two-child benefit cap and cuts energy bills paid for by mansion tax and freezing tax thresholds

  • Analysis: ‘Tax-raising budget crash-lands on struggling economy’

  • Budget 2025: key poin…

Budget highlights, lowlights, and an OBR blunder lead all the front pages in Thursday's papers.

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