As if the Labour lot hadn’t leaked enough ahead of Rachel Reeves’s big Budget announcement, a slip-up at the OBR meant that the report the Chancellor was set to unveil became readily available, er, before she had made her speech. The OBR was quick to apologise over the leak and confirmed it had launched a probe into the whole palaver. And now the qunago’s chairman, Richard Hughes, has offered to resign over the unprecedented release. Crikey!

Speaking at a Resolution Foundation event this morning, OBR head Richard Hughes explained:

It wasn’t published on our website but there was a link that somebody managed to find. And that made it accessible, and then it was then disseminated. As soon as it was discovered, we........

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