ALEX BRUMMER: Office for Budget Responsibility boss in at the deep end

The choice of Richard Hughes as next chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility will be a critical one for the Boris Johnson era. Covid-19 had turned Britain’s budgetary verities on their head. In wartime, extraordinary levels of borrowing and debt are acceptable, as predecessor Robert Chote intelligently pointed out in Commons testimony at the … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Stirring up No Deal Brexit fears

Last December’s election, the exit from the EU on January 31 and the colossal damage being done to the UK and continental economies by Covid-19 have done little to take the edge off the Brexit divide. The manner in which the discredited management of Nissan chooses to use its Sunderland plant as a political pawn … Read more