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Fiscal clouds still gathering

Recent months have seen renewed concerns over the outlook for the public finances, prompted both by the latest fiscal numbers themselves and worries over the future performance of the economy. Together, these have led some forecasters to predict that public borrowing could rise as high as £50bn per annum in the next few years.

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