Ms Reeves Budget was leaked half an hour before she was set to announce the Budget
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Ms Reeves Budget was leaked half an hour before she was set to announce the Budget
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An “external person” may have been able to access the link to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)’s fiscal outlook which was leaked before the Budget, the head of the watchdog has said.
Richard Hughes has written to the Chancellor and Commons Treasury Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier to apologise for the incident
A damning report into last week’s Budget leak said the error was the worst failure in the OBR’s 15-year history
The report said the leak was ‘the worst failure in the 15-year history of the OBR’
The economy watchdog raised concerns with the Treasury about the amount of information being leaked ahead of the chancellor’s…
The former head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre will be involved in the OBR’s investigation into what happened
Chancellor hits out at ‘too many leaks’ and says inquiry was is to root out who was responsible
