The UK government's annual finance statement is accidentally revealed 30 minutes in advance.

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning.

On Wednesday, the UK's finance minister, Rachel Reeves, gave the annual government budget speech in Parliament.

But in an embarrassing error,

Britain's fiscal watchdog accidentally published its economic outlook response document before

Ms. Reeves had even started speaking. I'm joined by the BBC's Sean Farrington, Sean High.

Hi. So Britain's finance minister has been under a lot of pressure, hasn't she?

She definitely has. The nation's finances are not a straightforward bunch of numbers to get on top of at the moment.

And there's been a lot of communication in recent weeks about what might have been in this budget.

Will there be increases in the income tax rates

that people pay? At one point we thought there would be and then another point we thought no. So finally

we had the budget where the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the finance minister, lays out exactly

what her plans are for tax, for spending, for borrowing over the coming years.

And it was definitely a budget where taxes were going to be raised, and that will be seen in the

United Kingdom in the years to come. A lot of the major revenue raising policy decisions from

Rachel Reeves were tax increases that will be kicking in

in a good few years' time. So not kicking in tomorrow or the start of the next financial year.

And before the official reveal of the budget, most of it was released to the public, wasn't it?

Quite a controversial moment that we're seeing a bit of reaction today. Investigation's

going on as to why the report of the official forecaster, the Office of Budget Responsibility,

which sort of checks the homework of the finance minister in the UK. Ordinarily, we'd hear

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