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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s business minister Jacob Rees-Mogg questioned the track record of the Office for Budget Responsibility in forecasting on Wednesday and said the finance minister should not rely on it when formulating policy. “Well, let’s see what the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has to say rather than guessing what it may say,” he told ITV’s Peston programme on Wednesday, according to pre-released quotes. “But its record of forecasting accurately hasn’t been enormously good. “So, the job of Chancellors (finance ministers) is to make decisions in the round rather than to as…