Turmoil on the markets
The Briefing Room
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Therar Worries About the Government's Finances
The cost of this help will actually depend on what happens on international market for those wholesale prices for gas. That's why we're in this position to start with. The office of budgetory responsibility, it didn't get to run its eyes over this miny budget in previous years. Would it have done? It would have done. As you say, the the o b r was set up to validate the government's plans. Its meant to be an independent body. So it it produces the forecasts and also rubber stamps the plan. Which takes us into a whole new territory.
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