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Battle breaks out over jobless figures

Posted on June 30, 2010

Labour claims watchdog has been used to rebut Guardian's disclosure on the predicted effect of cuts The political independence of the government's new Office for Budget Responsibility was called into question when it rushed out new employment forecasts after a Guardian leak of Treasury documents showing the budget could destroy 1.3m jobs. As David Cameron came under pressure over the impact of the spending cuts, the OBR released figures confirming the government expects around 600,000 public sector job losses by 2015-16 – but it claimed that a similar public sector jobs cull would have occurred under Labour. The projections were published just before prime minister's questions, during which Cameron was accused of creating "abject misery" in the jobs market

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Battle breaks out over jobless figures