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Critics of UK government’s economic forecaster are ‘shooting the messenger’, say MPs

theguardian.com · 23hShare

Treasury committee rejects calls for fundamental reform of independent watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility Attacks on the government’s independent economic forecaster from left and right of the political spectrum are akin to “shooting the messenger”, according to an influential group of MPs. The Treasury committee rejected “siren calls to fundamentally reform” the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and said it should not be blamed when policymakers had to make tough decisions because of tight public finances. Continue reading...

First report: OBR must 'not be blamed' for tough Budget decisions, John Healey told — gbnews.com, 1d