Of course the Bank Of England should be making contingency plans for action in the event that Britain votes to leave the EU and these should include a proper assessment of the effects on jobs and the economy generally. There is no need for any of this to be secret and it would be in the public interest for most of the findings to be published. It would not be crossing a political line to reveal the findings even if they may affect the way people vote; to withhold the findings would also potentially affect voting. The Bank of England does not do politics, but it does do financial and economic information and it must do them over the EU referendum.
All these instructions to shroud the process in waffle are ridiculous, even childish. As for the leak itself, how is it possible to ‘accidentally send’ a copy of an internal document to a newspaper? And to the Guardian? Come off it. We are not that stupid.