Over the next five years, the OBR is forecasting that welfare spending will rise by £73.2bn to £406.2bn. If we are not careful we might be starting to talk about some serious money.... (View Post)

OBR - "We have assessed that none of the policy measures in this Budget have a sufficiently material impact to justify adjusting our post-measures potential output forecast." ie. it's … (View Post)

Because no businesses will have her these days for a PR shoot? (View Post)

A fair number of these measures will only start to come in the year or so before the GE. That's a bold strategy Cotton.... (View Post)

Re the budget getting leaked by the OBR. Not the first time in the past 2 months the OBR has leaked badly. Somebody working there is up to no good. The Times had the leak about asking for model for I… (View Post)