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OBR ‘revised unemployment downwards just before Budget’

By politics.co.uk staff The newly-formed Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is facing serious questions about its independence after it emerged it downgraded its unemployment forecasts just before the Budget. The office, which was formed by chancellor George Osborne to free forecasts from any sense of political interference, reduced the total by 175,000 after making methodological… Read more »

Lib Dems ‘in denial’ – Miliband

By politics.co.uk staff Ed Miliband has hit out at the Liberal Democrats for placing party gain ahead of spending cuts. The shadow energy and climate change secretary, who is campaigning for the Labour leadership, was quoted by the Guardian tearing into Britain’s third party two months after it entered into a formal coalition with the… Read more »