Amid the Tories' fiscal disasters, one change has quietly warped how we see public spending for ever | Jonathan Portes
Briefly

The way the political conversation about tax and spending is framed during this election owes more to the OBR and its interaction with the government's fiscal rules than to either the Bank or the Treasury.
The OBR's remit and methodology bake in a specific approach to the public finances that militates against any radical policy changes.
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