How the OBR measures up

There are only so many Labour interviews a blog can take, so I’ll skip over Yvette Cooper in the Guardian (sample: “I did think about standing, and Ed said he thought I should stand and if I wanted to stand he would not stand”). Instead, another catch-up on how the Office for Budget Responsibility’s growth forecasts are shaping up against those made by other institutions. Since I last did this, two new documents have been processed into the public domain: the OBR’s latest economic and fiscal outlook, of course, as well as the the Treasury’s round-up of long-term independent forecasts. So here’s how the panorama of forecasts looks now: