Spring Budget 23: OBR forecasts UK will dodge recession in 2023 with inflation set to fall to 2.9%

Deficit to fall

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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The Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast that the UK will not enter a technical recession this year, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said today (15 March).

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