After months of speculation, Rachel Reeves has finally delivered her long-awaited Budget but not before she was upstaged by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) releasing their growth forecast two hours early by accident.

The “extraordinary” error, said the BBC ’s economics editor Faisal Islam, meant “all the policies and all the market critical fiscal numbers” were released before Reeves had said anything in the House of Commons.

With the chancellor already facing criticism for her handling of the lead-up to the Budget , the OBR leak “robbed her of the chance to set the tone and the credibility to be heard”, said Times Radio’s Kate McCann on X . “While not her mistake it may not matter in the minds of many.”

Reeves for her part admonished the OBR for the leak, before tellin

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