Richard Hughes resigned as chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility following the massive blunder minutes before the Chancellor's Budget speech last month Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves was left embarrassed by the blunder minutes before her speech

Britain's fiscal watchdog chief has quit after the blundering organisation published its Budget forecast before Rachel Reeves delivered it.

Richard Hughes resigned as chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility in a letter to the Chancellor and Dame Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Treasury Select Committee and a Labour MP.

His letter said: “The inadvertent early dissemination of our Economic and Fiscal Outlook on 26 November was a technical but serious error. I also need to play my part in enabling the organisation

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