July’s public finances figures continued the recent run of bad news on the fiscal position, with public borrowing on track to overshoot the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) 2024/25 forecast of £87.2bn by £4.7bn. Even if this overshoot does not persist, we expect the Chancellor to raise taxes and increase borrowing at the Budget on 30th October.
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