Rachel Reeves, Office for Budget Responsibility and tax
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Pushing the Budget back by a month may have seemed like a small administrative decision, but it has real-world consequences - particularly for younger workers and small businesses.
John Healey insisted no decisions had been made on the final shape of the Budget to be delivered on November 26.
Third, even if it weren't for the OBR's productivity downgrade, it's quite likely the chancellor would have broken those fiscal rules, due to the various U-turns by the government on welfare reforms, winter fuel, and extra giveaways they haven't yet provided the funding for, such as reversing the two-child benefit cap.
It is the economics version of music’s “difficult second album”. When the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, steps up to deliver her follow-up budget on November 26, she faces some daunting choices. Now that the Office for Budget Responsibility – the UK ...