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Fiscal watchdog under scrutiny after Budget day errors
Office for Budget Responsibility apologises for early release of analysis and corrects one forecast
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Rachel Reeves’ case of risky risk aversion
It is depressing that a government with such a huge majority dares do so little to transform economic prospects
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‘Spend now, pay later’: Reeves’ Budget delays the fiscal pain
Chancellor now more likely to meet her fiscal rules without further policy changes, OBR says
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Vanguard plans to buy more gilts as UK Budget calms investor nerves
Rachel Reeves’ plan to boost fiscal ‘headroom’ to £22bn sparks rally in government debt
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Reeves leaves Britons poorer but no wiser about Labour’s strategy
She and Starmer remain torn between the convictions that got them into politics and economic principles
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North Sea oil and gas groups given go-ahead for new drilling
Fields connected to existing rigs and pipelines will be explored following consultation on future of industry
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Tories accuse Reeves of taxing workers to pay for £9bn in extra welfare spending
Half a million families on universal credit will gain an average £5,000 a year each due to abolition of two-child limit
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Budget exposes Labour to charges of being ‘high tax, high welfare’ party
For now Rachel Reeves appears to have reassured many fractious backbench MPs
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