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Evening Standard
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City Spy

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey's early Christmas present to the City

Picture the scene: Threadneedle Street, in the heart of the Square Mile, a bowler hat’s throw away from several of City Spy’s best-capitalised pubs and bars.  

A tall, immaculately dressed middle-aged man, resplendent in Charles Tyrwhitt, is climbing the steps of the Royal Exchange, with the bluff stone cliffs of the Bank of England behind him.  

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