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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Phillip Inman

‘A whiff of 2008’: analysts detect danger in Bank of England’s crackdown on inflation

Bank governor Andrew Bailey
Bank governor Andrew Bailey voted to end the run of increases last month, and expects inflation to drop this year. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

The Bank of England has waited a long time for the jobs market to cool down, and now it has.

On Thursday, the central bank’s interest rate setters will meet at their Threadneedle Street headquarters, and the expectation is that a rise in unemployment, a fall in vacancies and a weakening of wages growth will persuade them to leave interest rates unchanged at 5.25%.

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