With the Office for Budget Responsibility’s government borrowing forecasts only including the cost of just one of the extra four months of the Job Retention Scheme and no medium-term scarring effects of the crisis, borrowing is likely to end up being quite a bit higher. We forecast that the budget deficit will reach £340bn (17.5% of GDP) in 2020/21, over £40bn more than the OBR expects.
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