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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Forrest

Bank of England boss must go if he doesn’t change course, says senior Tory

PA

The Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey may have to go if he does not come up with an alternative course to putting up interest rates, according to the former Conservative Party chair Sir Jake Berry.

The senior Tory and Boris Johnson ally is the first to publicly question Mr Bailey’s future, amid backbench fury over the Bank being “asleep at the wheel” over inflation and the looming mortgage timebomb.

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