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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Monday the 1st of December.

Coming up, a Treasury Minister gets dramatic news as he makes a statement about budget leaks and the economic watchdog, the OBR.

The chair of the OBR has resigned, it's what I understand, from messages passed to me.

Also, the West Midlands police chief defends a controversial decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a match in Birmingham.

It was made in the best interests and the safety of everybody concerned.

And a top civil servant is in the hot seat over assessments of how many probation officers are needed.

They've been adjusted more recently.

We're wrong, were they?

But, well, I mean, I can't comment on that.

Of course you can. Sorry, you're the permanent secretary.

But first, the news that the chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility had resigned

came as MPs were questioning a minister about the leak

and which details of the budget were publicly available 40 minutes before the Chancellor

had even stood up to speak, Loss Weddenstein.

Today, the Treasury Minister James Murray began, though,

by addressing the row swirling around Rachel Reeves herself

and claimed she deliberately gave an overly gloomy view of the economy

in the run-up to the budget.

James Murray insisted she had not misled the public.

She knew that there would still not be enough money to keep to her Treasury rules and fund the government's priorities.

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