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Bank of England Articles

Verdict: Dreadful

Alison McGovern has five things you need to know about the autumn statement and what it means for Brexit Britain ‘One cannot stress enough how dreadful this is’. That was the verdict of Paul Johnson, head of the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies on the dire...

The mantle of credibility

Trust in Labour on the economy was hard won, deserved, then needlessly lost, suggests Kitty Ussher The Blair government won office after 18 years in opposition. Unlike its predecessor Labour governments, it was not met by a dip in the stock exchange but instead...

Deflation danger

The general gaiety over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership obliterated discussion of last week’s worrisome inflation figures. They should have been our first line of attack against the Tory government. Zero inflation might be assumed to be a good thing by a generation brought...

Super Thursday – what it means for politics

The Bank of England today once again held interest rates at 0.5 per cent. The Bank’s interest rate has not changed since March 2009. There was some expectation that the Bank might suggest a rate hike was close at hand but instead its inflation report has left some...