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Evening Standard editor apologises after Twitter leak of Budget frontpage
The London Evening Standard has apologised for a “very serious mistake” after details of the Budget were leaked on the Internet 20 minutes before the Chancellor of the Exchequer had started his speech in Parliament.
The paper’s editor Sarah Sands said: “An investigation is immediately underway into how this front page was made public and the individual who tweeted the page has been suspended while this takes place. We have immediately reviewed our procedures. We are devastated that an embargo was breached and offer our heartfelt apologies.”
An image of the newspaper’s front page, including clearly visible details of the Chancellor’s plans for borrowing, tax cuts and growth forecast, was posted on Twitter by a member of the newspaper’s staff shortly after midday.
By the time George Osborne came forward to make his speech, jeering Labour members were waving photo-copies of the newspaper front page at him. The leak will have given the Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband valuable early notice of what Mr Osborne was planning to announce.
The error was seized on by political correspondents including the BBC’s Nick Robinson, who used Twitter to comment “Standby for row about Budget leak.”
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Sarah Sands is a British journalist and author. A former editor of the London Evening Standard, she became editor of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 in 2017Sands was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, to parents in the Colonial Service. Sands is the younger sister of Kit Hesketh-Harvey (of musical duo Kit and The Widow). She was educated at Kent College, Pembury (then a Methodist, now interdenominational) independent day and boarding school for girls. She later attended Goldsmiths, University of London.
Sands trained on The Sevenoaks Chronicle as a news reporter, before moving to the Evening Standard, initially as editor of the Londoner's Diary, before taking further posts as features editor and associate editor. She joined The Daily Telegraph in 1996 as deputy editor, under Charles Moore, later assuming responsibility for the Saturday edition.
Sands was appointed the first female editor of The Sunday Telegraph in June 2005, succeeding Dominic Lawson.
In April 2006, Sands was appointed consultant editor on the Daily Mail.
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