Chancellor within a whisker of breaking her fiscal rule

There is a significant chance that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) will judge that the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is on course to miss her main fiscal rule when it revises its forecasts on 26th March. To maintain fiscal credibility, this may mean that Reeves is forced to tighten fiscal policy further.

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