ONS says early data release was due to issue with process

The UK labour market report was released way ahead of schedule

Sure, "process issues". Bloomberg and Reuters had it out about 12 minutes earlier, while one of our readers noted it was out by 24 minutes before the actual release.

There have been countless times when ONS data are believed to have been leaked to certain market participants ahead of time that you can't really put much trust into statements like these anymore. Jokes.

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