Office for Budget Responsibility chief Richard Hughes has quit after sensitive Budget documents were released early.
The watchdog boss said he would take full responsibility for the extraordinary blunder, which saw key details released an hour before Rachel Reeves stood up to deliver the statement.
In a letter to the Chancellor and the chair of Treasury Committee, he said: “The inadvertent early dissemination of our Economic and fiscal outlook on 26 November was a technical but serious error.”
He added: “I also need to play my part in enabling the organisation that I have loved leading for the past five years to quickly move on from this regrettable incident. I have, therefore, decided it is in the best interest of the OBR for me to resign as its chair and take full responsibility for the shortcoming identified in the report.”
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