A damning report into last week’s Budget leak said the error was the worst failure in the OBR’s 15-year history

Investigation finds organisation’s leadership over many years was to blame for error, and similar breach happened earlier this year

Richard Hughes departs after investigation into how official forecaster accidentally published budget 40 minutes early

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’

LONDON: The head of Britain’s fiscal watchdog resigned on Monday after the agency last week inadvertently released key details of the government’s annual tax and spending budget…

The economy watchdog raised concerns with the Treasury about the amount of information being leaked ahead of the chancellor’s statement

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch led the accusation about Richard Hughes, the former chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility