Although it will have no impact on the fiscal update next week, the significant overshoot in borrowing in February highlights the Chancellor’s tight fiscal backdrop. The Office for Budget Responsibility OBR will probably still conclude that the Chancellor’s headroom against her fiscal rules has been wiped out. So we expect her to announce further non-defence spending cuts, on top of the welfare cuts already unveiled earlier this week.
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