The Office for Budget Responsibility’s mistakenly released its report on her economic plans early.
Here are some of the policies it confirmed:
Income tax thresholds are being frozen for three years.
The gambling industry is going to be taxed more, raising over a billion pounds.
The two-child benefit cap’s being scrapped from April.
And it forecasts that growth in real household disposable income will fall after the budget.
The O-B-R’s apologised and blamed a ‘technical error’ for the mistake.
Rachel Reeves began her address by calling it ‘deeply disappointing’ and a ‘serious error on their part’.
She went on to defend her approach saying she’s taken the ‘right choices’ for a stronger and fairer economy.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s demanded an investigation into the budget leaks.
Sir Ed Davey said there is an alterative path
From the Office for Budget Responsibility.
A link to our Economic and fiscal outlook document went live on our website too early this morning. It has been removed.
We apologise for this technical error and have initiated an investigation into how this happened.
We will be reporting to our Oversight Board, the Treasury, and the Commons Treasury Committee on how this happened, and we will make sure this does not happen again.
Our Economic and fiscal outlook and supporting documents will be released when the Chancellor has finished her speech.
