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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Larry Elliott Economics editor

Mountain view: Bank top economist offers two routes to beating inflation

Table Mountain in Cape Town has found itself a new role as a guide to what will happen to UK interest rates.
Table Mountain in Cape Town has found itself a new role as a guide to what will happen to UK interest rates. Photograph: Stefano Politi Markovina/Alamy

Tourist attraction, backdrop to millions of selfies and one of the world’s most easily identifiable landmarks. Cape Town’s Table Mountain is all of these things, but now it has found a new role: as a guide to what will happen to UK interest rates.

For Huw Pill the opportunity was too good to pass up. Invited by South Africa’s central bank to speak at a high-level conference, the Bank of England’s chief economist said there were two ways for Threadneedle Street to bring UK inflation back to the government’s 2% target.

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