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APPEARING before the Commons liaison committee of senior MPs last week, the PM had a serious whinge about the Office for Budget Responsibility.
The official forecaster had failed to credit how chancellor Rachel Reeves’ benefit cuts would push more people into work in its recent forecasts. It was, complained Keir Starmer, “significant, to my mind, that the ability of any policy or legislation to change any behaviour at all is not priced in”. (The OBR says this is because it doesn’t have enough information to make a link.)