{
  "id": 9280687,
  "title": "Critics of UK government’s economic forecaster are ‘shooting the messenger’, say MPs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/critics-of-uk-governments-economic-forecaster-are-shooting-the",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T05:00:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/23/obr-treasury-committee-shooting-messenger-mps-economic-forecaster-uk"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Treasury committee rejects calls for fundamental reform of independent watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility Attacks on the government’s independent economic forecaster from left and right of the political spectrum are akin to “shooting the messenger”, according to an influential group of MPs. The Treasury committee rejected “siren calls to fundamentally reform” the Office for Budget…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}