BBCNEWS Review 2022 June 4, 2024 14:47:00
I found out that a forecast, the numbers had been prepared by the office for budget responsibility in draft form, to provide the underpinning for any policies. they were dire numbers, and in any ordinary circumstances, an incoming chancellor may have tweaked — i say tweak, provided some pretty massive surgery to their plans. that didn't happen, those forecasts were ignored, parked, forgotten about, and they went even further in terms of tax cuts and further borrowing, and just said, "we are not going to publish a set of forecasts." that was really damaging, that decision not to publish the 0...