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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Unconvinced by the Bank of England on inflation’s causes and solutions

City of London Financial and Professional Services Dinner(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, The Lord Mayor of the City of London Nicholas Lyons and Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey at the City of London Financial and Professional Services Dinner at Mansion House in London. Picture date: Monday July 10, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Aaron Chown/PA Wire
Jeremy Hunt, left, listens to Andrew Bailey, right, at the Mansion House dinner, 10 July. Between them is the lord mayor of London, Nicholas Lyons. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

Here we go again. The Bank of England raising the base interest rate, the magical solution to inflation that they learned long ago, irrespective of the causes of that inflation (Record UK pay growth adds to pressure for interest rate rise, 11 July) and the workers, trying to survive, get the blame.

It is obvious that there are three major causes of our present inflation. First, Liz Truss’s disastrous imposition of her own magical solution, as she had been taught by the Institute of Economic Affairs, “trickle down and the market will fix everything”. This led to the world financiers losing confidence in Britain. Now, we are told, we can only regain that confidence by the government ensuring that the majority find it very difficult to afford to feed their families.

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