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Catch the latest Financial News EventsHow the standoff between Rachel Reeves and the OBR unfolded
Treasury’s independent economic forecaster says outlook for economy rosier than chancellor led everyone to believeOBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of Reeves’s budgetUK politics live – latest updatesRachel Reeves has been accused of overstating the...
Does Labour have a death wish or does it secretly enjoy the agony of self-sabotage?
Keir Starmer may be keen to move on from the budget megashambles, but chaos is hardwired into his partyFreud has a word for it. Thanatos. Up till now it’s been tempting to give Labour the benefit of the doubt. That being in opposition for 14 years has made them...
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked togetherTom was my hero from the night I first saw Travesties in...
OBR says its inadvertent release of budget report is ‘worst failure’ in its 15-year history – UK politics live
Office for Budget Responsibility says Rachel Reeves ‘had every right to expect that the [report] would not be publicly available until she sat down at the end of her budget speech’Q: Yesterday you said Rachel Reeves was lying. Today you are saying she gave out false...