UK budget watchdog in danger of strangling economic growth, says TUC boss - short news
Paul Nowak says OBR should be modernised to ditch ‘hardwired’ support for austerity economics
Britain’s budget watchdog is in danger of strangling growth and should be modernised to ditch its “hardwired” support for austerity economics, the TUC has warned.
Less than two weeks before Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget, the trade union umbrella group said that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was at risk of being a “straitjacket” on growth in living..
source: The Guardian - 16.11.2025