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UK budget watchdog ordered to cancel new fiscal forecasts
Britain's independent budget watchdog dropped a plan to publish an updated assessment of the public finances on Thursday after the country's top civil servant decided at the last minute that it would break election rules.
The Office for Budget Responsibility had been widely expected to revise up its forecasts for Britain's borrowing needs after changes to the way the public accounts are calculated, putting the government on course to break a borrowing cap it had set itself.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson called a snap Dec. 12 election in a bid to break the Brexit deadlock. His finance minister Sajid Javid said earlier on Thursday that only Johnson's Conservative Party could be trusted with the public finances.
"We had planned to publish a technical restatement of our March public finance forecast this morning," the OBR said in a statement issued an hour before the new forecasts had been due for release.
"This will no longer go ahead as the Cabinet Secretary has concluded that this would not be consistent with the Cabinet Office’s General Election Guidance."
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