Having an emergency budget in September - in which she will make long-term funding pledges - has been a key part of the frontrunner’s campaign to get into Number 10.
The move has been branded “worrying” by an economist and expert in government finance, while the team behind Conservative leadership rival Rishi Sunak accused Ms Truss of wanting “to avoid independent scrutiny”.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) provides forecasts for all budgets as part of the founding law of the body, enacted in 2010.
Despite being funded by the Treasury, it is fully independent.
While the OBR is ready to provide an analysis for Ms Truss if she asks for it, the former Treasury minister - who counts the chancellor and chief secretary to the Treasury among her supporters - wants to go ahead without it.
A Truss spokesperson said: “The cost of living crisis means immediate action is required. A Truss government would seek to act as soon as possible to help people across the UK, by cutting taxes and introducing a temporary moratorium on energy levies.”
Perhaps Ms Truss knows more than she lets on and will save the country from the Poxy-Clips (
) or perhaps the Tories, by letting the lunatic airhead take over the asylum, will cause Our-Meggydom (
).
