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Spending watchdog resigns after budget leak

Office for Budget Responsibility chair Richard Hughes resigns after the OBR published the budget online early. Plus a new pricing plan for NHS drugs.

The Chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, Richard Hughes, resigns after his organisation published details of the budget before the Chancellor delivered it last week. We speak to the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, and from Cabinet minister Douglas Alexander. A court in Bangladesh has found the Labour MP Tulip Siddiq guilty of a corruption charge - we hear from Cherie Blair, who has concerns about the case. Plus, new data shows many public clocks are broken - we look at the role public time keeping plays in our lives.

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