The OBR’s decision to cut its productivity growth forecasts left the Chancellor scrambling to find some money to achieve his 2019/20 surplus goal. But we think that productivity growth will be much stronger than the OBR expects, giving the Chancellor an unexpected windfall further ahead.
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