Tory leader Kemi Badenoch led the accusation about Richard Hughes, the former chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch led the accusation about Richard Hughes, the former chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility
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Rachel Reeves has been accused of forcing the chair of the UK’s Budget watchdog to quit after he revealed that claims she made about the public finances were false.
OBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of Reeves’s budget
UK budget watchdog head quits over early release of Reeves’ budget
OBR head's resignation leaves potential landmines for Reeves
Chancellor says she can be trusted with the UK's finances despite claims she misled the public
Chair of UK's fiscal watchdog resigns after early published report threw Budget into chaos
Richard Hughes has written to the Chancellor and Commons Treasury Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier to apologise for the incident
The report said the leak was ‘the worst failure in the 15-year history of the OBR’
Badenoch claims chancellor ‘lied to the public to justify record tax hikes’ and was ‘bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin’
The Tory leader has claimed that the chancellor is speaking ‘managerial mush’ over claims Ms Reeves made in The Independent that…
Richard Hughes departs after investigation into how official forecaster accidentally published budget 40 minutes early
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch earlier called on Sir Keir to launch a ‘full investigation’, but he said this would not…
