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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Archie Mitchell

Households should ‘accept’ being poorer, Bank of England’s top economist says

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The Bank of England’s chief economist is facing backlash for suggesting households “need to accept” they will be poorer.

Huw Pill said workers asking for higher pay and shopkeepers putting up prices were “self-defeating” as both fuel inflation.

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