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Laura Pollock

Washington Post opinion editor quits one day after massive Scotland error published

Adam O'Neal, a correspondent from The Economist. was hired as opinion editor last year (Image: PA)

THE opinion editor of The Washington Post is leaving his job one day after the editorial board – which is closely controlled by the billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos – published a wildly incorrect claim about Scotland’s tax system.

Adam O'Neal, a correspondent from The Economist who was hired as opinion editor last year, told his team in an internal memo that he would be leaving the right-wing US newspaper after "a remarkable year".

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