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 before finance minister Rachel Reeves announced them in parliament. The resignation of Richard Hughes came shortly after the Office for Budget Responsibility said in a report that the lapse on November 26 appeared to have occurred with a similar fiscal report 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