Analysts warn of over-estimating UK growth

摘要

Chancellor George Osborne will become 'uncomfortably dependent' on improved economic judgments by the Office for Budget Responsibility, (OBR) a post-Budget analysis has suggested. In the aftermath of a Budget described by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies as 'not a big fiscal event", the think-tank warned the biggest risk to the chancellor's still-precarious public finances was an over-estimation of the UK's long-term health by the OBR.