OBR should leave Treasury to prove independence - Budd

The Government's tax and spending watchdog has come under sustained attack in the past fortnight after it released figures on employment only hours before a debate in the House of Commons over leaked Treasury forecasts of public sector job cuts. Budd, who resigned last week less than two months after the office was created, says the OBR must take action to demonstrate its independence, writes the Guardian. "We are able to state, without reservation, that there was no ministerial involvement in the forecasts at any stage," he says. "However the fact that we were operating in the Tre...