Tax and Fiscal Policy

The Budget “could have been far worse”


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Julian Jessop quoted by the Daily Mail

The Chancellor claimed in his Budget speech to have received unprecedented backing from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) for his huge increase in public investment over the next five years.

Quoted in the Daily Mail, Mail Online and This is Money, IEA Economics Fellow Julian Jessop said it “could have been far worse. The Chancellor could have used the cover of coronavirus to abandon the fiscal rules today.”

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