Starmer urged to stick to manifesto pledge amid reports of delay to youth minimum wage rise – UK politics live

GMB union tells Labour delaying or halting equalisation to adult rates would be unacceptableAt the start of the year Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, said that he was seriously considering getting rid of the Office for Budget Responsibility. He said in an interview:I have questioned the need for it. The question we have to ask ourselves is ‘is the OBR serving any useful purpose?’ We have to discuss whether we would be better off without the OBR. I am giving that very serious thought.With the OBR I worry once again that we have a Blairite-style quango effectively dictating to elected politicians what they should or should not do. It seems that in too many areas of our public life the power has moved to judges and quangos and not the government the people choose.Everything Reform promise will be fully costed. And because we’re confident about the approach we will take,