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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Heather Stewart

OBR a backseat driver with out-of-date maps, thinktanks tell Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves is due to deliver her spring forecast on Tuesday and is expected to point to evidence of a nascent economic recovery. Photograph: Jack Taylor/PA

Rachel Reeves must reform the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to open the way to more public investment, an alliance of thinktanks has argued ahead of the chancellor’s spring forecast on Tuesday.

With Keir Starmer’s government under intense pressure after Labour’s defeat by the Greens in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton byelection, the thinktanks called on Reeves to review the watchdog’s remit.

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