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OBR under fire for secrecy over economic forecasts
The Daily Telegraph 11 Feb 2026
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has come under fire after announcing it will not inform the public when it provides the Government with economic forecasts ... Richard Hughes was forced to resign over the OBR’s damaging Budget leak Credit.
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Spring Statement accessed more times than thought after OBR leak, review will say
Financial Times 09 Feb 2026
Findings are set to raise fresh questions about fiscal watchdog’s processes ....
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Budget seen 25,000 times before official release after OBR leak
The Daily Telegraph 09 Feb 2026
Rachel Reeves’s Budget was accessed almost 25,000 times before its official publication after an Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) leak, an investigation has revealed ... Future OBR documents will ...
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Alarm mounts as Chancellor delays hunt for new OBR chief
The Daily Mail 07 Feb 2026
The future of the Office for Budget Responsibility is in fresh doubt after it emerged that the watchdog could remain without a leader for the rest of this year ....
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Financial Planning Today
07 Feb 2026
OBR issues warning over impact of salary sacrifice reforms
The Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) has warned of the “highly uncertain” reaction to salary sacrifice reforms from both employers and pension savers. The OBR has issued a report on the ...
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OBR says 80% of in-scope workers may cut contributions as salary sacrifice limited
Professional Pensions 06 Feb 2026
... Budget Responsibility (OBR) reveals.
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OBR lead on forecasting and outlook for the future
Channel 4 22 Jan 2026
But does the economic watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), have too much power?.
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Chancellor's borrowing rules 'make no sense', says ex-OBR boss
The Daily Mail 17 Jan 2026
Richard Hughes also warned that Britain was 'increasingly vulnerable' to future shocks compared with other economies unless a bigger buffer was built into public finances ....
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OBR has ‘earned people’s trust’ despite budget leak, says former chairman
Belfast Telegraph 13 Jan 2026
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Political promises should be audited, says former OBR chairman
The Times/The Sunday Times 13 Jan 2026
Richard Hughes, who resigned ...
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Labour manifesto ‘nothing like actual plans’, says ex-OBR chief
The Daily Telegraph 13 Jan 2026
Labour’s manifesto “was nothing like” what the party has done in Government, the former boss of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said ... Richard Hughes stepped down as OBR chairman in the wake of Rachel Reeves’s November Budget Credit.
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Starmer ‘misled public’ by suggesting OBR backed Chagos costs
The Daily Telegraph 09 Jan 2026
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of misleading the public by implying his disputed Chagos costings were backed by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) ... represented “how the OBR counts the cost”.
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It is perfectly reasonable for Farage to propose scrapping the OBR
The Daily Telegraph 09 Jan 2026
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Nigel Farage’s plot to abolish the OBR shows Reform is not a serious party
The Daily Telegraph 06 Jan 2026
Nigel Farage says he is considering scrapping the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) because it is a Blairite quango “dictating to elected politicians what they should or should not do” ... It was not the OBR that forced Rachel Reeves to raise taxes.
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