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Richard Hughes takes ‘full responsibility’ for watchdog error as Starmer attempts to secure chancellor’s position

A damning report into last week’s Budget leak said the error was the worst failure in the OBR’s 15-year history

Investigation finds organisation’s leadership over many years was to blame for error, and similar breach happened earlier this year

PM says he is ‘very supportive’ of spending watchdog but breach was a ‘massive discourtesy’ to parliament

The chancellor doubled down on her tax hikes, saying she wasn’t willing to cut public services

The Chancellor she had made choices to increase taxes and improve public infrastructure, and had ‘chosen to protect public spending’.

Not since 2014 have Liverpool struggled so much, with questions aimed at directors and players such as Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz

In today’s Football Daily: perhaps Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital et al are football romantics after all

Official forecaster’s chair says chancellor knew about revised predictions well before her budget change of heart

IN FOCUS : Roughly one in five Brits have made what they considered a ‘critical mistake’ at work. While it may be nothing compared to the mistake at the OBR this week, which published Rachel Reeves’s budget before she had announced it, what is seen as career-ending now? Lydia Spencer-Elliott…

Richard Hughes has written to the Chancellor and Commons Treasury Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier to apologise for the incident