Office for Bodged Responsibility

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington explores why Richard Hughes has quit as head of the OBR after a Budget-day publishing blunder, and what it means for trust in the watchdog’s forecasts.

Trainees at an accountancy firm will be sent on secondments at bars, pubs and restaurants to help develop their 'front of house' skills - Sean finds out why.

And it's Christmas advert season; can local shops compete with the big brands? Small businesses in Hexham, in Northumberland, have banded together to have a go by creating their own Christmas Ad.

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0:33.3	The only thing left to do now is run.
0:38.1	Wake up to money from BBC 5 Live.
0:41.8	Hello, welcome. It is Wake Up to Money and there we have it.
0:45.4	The chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has resigned.
0:50.5	It is a fundamental breach of the OBR's responsibility.
0:54.4	It is a discourtesy to this house and it should never have happened.
0:58.4	Richard Hughes stepped down yesterday after its own report of the OBR said the leak of the economic forecast before last week's budget was the worst failure in its 15 year history.
1:09.7	We'll look at what next. Why is it so crucial?
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