The Commons Treasury Committee has a session with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). No Richard Hughes after his last-minute resignation…
Instead there will be Professor David Miles, member of Budget Responsibility Committee, and Tom Josephs, also a member. Reeves is up at 10:00 on Wednesday 10 December…
UPDATE: David Miles takes this line: “I don’t think it was misleading, my own view, for the Chancellor to say that the fiscal position was very challenging at the beginning of that week. Whether a message was then put out to say it was less challenging by the end of that week, I don’t know and I don’t know where the message would have come from. It certainly didn’t reflect anything that was news from the OBR that was being fed into the Government.” I.e. the spin deployed after the FT income tax story was bullsh*t…
