OBR
Editor's Blog
The latest OBR report on the UK's increasingly unsustainable deficit and the macro trends that threaten to make it worse still demands a bold response
13 September 2024
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5 min read
Politics
Office for Budgetary Responsibility warns climate change and an ageing population are set to deal further blows to the UK's already dire public finances
12 September 2024
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7 min read
Politics
Environment Secretary warns condition of flood defences 'far worse than we were led to believe', as Labour accuses Tories of leaving public finances in terrible state
29 July 2024
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6 min read
Automotive
Company to commit to making new electric Qashqai and Juke models in Sunderland, as OBR trims outlook for EV sales
24 November 2023
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3 min read
Investment
Remaining heavily reliant on fossil gas for power and heating poses huge fiscal and economic risk to the UK, warns the Office for Budget Responsibility
14 July 2023
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8 min read
Taxation
Office for Budget Responsibility estimates sustained high fossil fuel prices could make the comparative costs of net zero over a third cheaper
08 July 2022
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5 min read
Politics
Government denies reports of differences on Downing Street over how to fund much needed policies to deliver net zero
26 July 2021
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3 min read
Net Zero Now
The Office for Budgetary Responsibility has offered some of the most detailed estimates to date on the costs and savings that would result from decarbonising the UK economy by 2050
07 July 2021
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8 min read
Risk
The focus may have been on its Brexit projections, but as Madeleine Cuff argues the OBR's highlighting of climate risks demands attention from businesses and policymakers
19 July 2019
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4 min read
