why the UK's fiscal watchdog does not share the chancellor's optimism
- Written by Ben M Clift, Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt confidently described his first budget of 2023 as a “budget for growth”. He went on to offer a fairly upbeat assessment of both economic performance and future prospects, arguing: “The declinists are wrong and the optimists are right.”
Hunt’s aim to provide a...