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🗓️ 3 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So the chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has resigned and the Chancellor is being accused of misleading the public. So how did that budget go? I'm Hannah White and this is Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government. |
| 0:22.7 | On Monday, the OBR revealed that the accidental leak of the budget happened as a result of |
| 0:27.5 | technical errors in loading the economic and fiscal outlook onto their website and keeping it |
| 0:32.9 | private before its intended publication time. Its chair, Richard Hughes, has taken responsibility for the breach and resigned. |
| 0:40.1 | What does this mean for the ABR's future and political trust in it? |
| 0:44.4 | Meanwhile, the Conservative Party in Reform UK and some in the media have spent the weekend |
| 0:48.7 | asking the Chancellor and then the Prime Minister whether before the budget, |
| 0:53.1 | she misled the public, Parliament, |
| 0:55.6 | and according to some ministers, even cabinet, about the state of the public finances. |
| 1:00.6 | So what did happen in the budget pitch rolling over the last several weeks? |
| 1:04.4 | And what does this tell us about how well the UK does budgets? |
| 1:08.2 | Could we? Should we do them differently? |
| 1:13.2 | And finally, after a review and then a leak, |
| 1:19.5 | the Justice Secretary has revealed his plans for changes to jury trials. We will dig into the latest news. To discuss all this, I am thrilled to be joined by two new members of my top team. After an |
| 1:27.0 | exhaustive and quite exhausting recruitment round, |
| 1:29.9 | we have appointed two new executive directors to our senior team. But they will be familiar voices |
| 1:36.6 | to inside briefing fans. Please welcome new executive director for research and innovation Gemmatertelo |
| 1:43.0 | and new executive director for impact and influence Gemmetello and new Executive Director for Impact |
| 1:45.9 | and Influence, Alex Thomas. Congratulations to you both. Thank you, Hannah. It's really exciting. |
| 1:51.2 | I love working for the IFG. This is a great opportunity to take the organisation onto the next stage, |
| 1:57.3 | really focus on the coherence of both our research programme and then amplifying |
| 2:01.7 | that and getting it out to the world and having as much influence as we can. So very exciting |
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