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Posts Tagged: OBR

Gerard Lyons: The Budget. It was right for the Chancellor to focus on providing a stronger foundation for growth.

Yesterday he sent a powerful message about the need to build a stronger economy, with a focus on innovation and investment.

By Dr Gerard Lyons | 28 October 2021

David Gauke: My Budget advice to the Chancellor. Raise income tax, not corporation tax.

We need to have a debate about which taxes are least damaging to economic growth. Over the long term, corporation tax ranks as being one of the worst.

By David Gauke | 27 February 2021

Ryan Bourne: The Right’s glory was its mastery of economic policy. Why has it given up even thinking about it?

Precisely what does Johnson think was wrong with the 2010-2018 deficit reduction agenda? Who knows? The Tories don’t have a clear economic story.

By Ryan Bourne | 22 July 2020 | 24 comments

John O’Connell: The tax choice ahead. Johnson, and the highest burden since Attlee. Or Corbyn, and…the highest ever.

The tax burden isn’t a full measure of the size of the state. But it’s arguably the pre-eminent factor and certainly that which most concerns the TaxPayers’ Alliance.

By John O'Connell | 9 December 2019 | 28 comments

Nick Hargrave: Wanted. A Too Difficult Department to help tackle intractable post-election problems.

I am arguing that there is some limited space for radical candour with the electorate on the difficult choices facing the country in the 2020s.

By Nick Hargrave | 16 November 2019 | 97 comments

WATCH: Sunak defends Conservative spending plans as “sensible fiscal management”

Marr criticises the Conservatives for “spending money like water” in a way they formerly criticised Labour for doing.

3 November 2019 | 84 comments

Can economic forecasts regain their political authority?

The financial crisis, Brown, Osborne and then the EU and Scottish referendums did not cover the discipline in glory.

By Mark Wallace | 19 July 2019 | 67 comments

Tax cut promises, spending hike pledges – and an air of unreality

We apologise for not being swept away by the mania for new announcements that infests this leadership contest.

By Paul Goodman | 11 June 2019 | 81 comments

Alex Morton: This week, Hammond’s Budget. Next year, the Spending Review. It must focus on gaining more growth.

The Treasury should not simply accept the growth figures given by the OBR, but seek to raise them.

By Alex Morton | 1 November 2018

WATCH: Hammond says he’d need a new Budget in the event of no-deal Brexit

“The approach that I’m going to be setting out tomorrow is based on the assumption, as is the OBR’s report, of a deal being done with the European Union.”

28 October 2018 | 57 comments

WATCH: “The best [economic] modelling in the world is wrong”, Davis tells the Brexit committee

The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union cites the way in which the OBR repeatedly fails to predict the deficit as an example of inevitable modelling errors.

25 April 2018 | 71 comments

Hammond’s seriousness, professionalism and – yes – dullness make Labour look lightweight

It is not that he dares to be dull, but that he cannot help being so. He has prudently turned it to his advantage.

By Andrew Gimson | 14 March 2018 | 76 comments

WATCH: Shapps – Hammond’s Budget “cheered the backbenchers up”

But he says the way the Chancellor presented the OBR’s growth figures was “interesting”.

26 November 2017

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