This is from The Guardian
This is from a post by Ed Conway, Sky News’s economics editor.
When @RachelReevesMP gave “that” press conference in Downing St earlier this month she put the @OBR_UK and its forecasts front and centre as the explanation for why “difficult decisions” (eg tax rises) were necessary.
Yet today we learn, from the chronology sent by the head of the OBR to Meg Hillier of the Treasury Committee, that not only was the OBR forecast NOT going to wipe out her headroom against her fiscal rule, but it had been telling HMT that for weeks
Link https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/nov/28/workers-rights-bill-unfair-dismissal-uk-politics-latest-news-updates-labour-budget-keir-starmer
i don’t know what to make of it. Did she lie? Did investors lose/make money out of this?
What do you think?