Good morning. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was designed to be an institution that crunches numbers quietly in the background. Instead, over the past week, it has found itself dragged kicking and screaming into the political spotlight.
On the day attention should have been fixed on Rachel Reeves’s economic plans, many instead watched the fallout from the OBR’s accidental early publication of her budget. After the leak there followed days of anger and disbelief, which culminated in the resignation of the OBR’s chair, Richard Hughes.
