OBR warns Sajid Javid he risks breaking borrowing rules

Sajid Javid set out the biggest rise in public spending since before the financial crisis. Photograph: RMV/Rex/ShutterstockThe head of the Treasury spending watchdog has warned Sajid Javid that he is on track to break government borrowing rules after embarking on the biggest annual increase in spending for 15 years.Robert Chote, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), said the chancellor had set a course for the public finances that would probably breach a Conservative manife