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...“I’m not deaf to the fact politicians face elections,” he said....
...Marc FilippinoSam Fleming is the FT’s economics editor. Thanks, Sam. Sam FlemingThank you....
...“I’m not sure what else they have left,” he said....
...“I’m not going to put a date on when I expect the UK to start the process of loosening monetary policy, but it is clearly the case that will be the direction of travel,” she added....
...I’m very much in the gradualist camp.” Even if headline inflation fell sharply in the coming months, he said, “I am trying to find out what the underlying, persistent measures are . . ....
...“I’m wondering how Labour MPs can square with their consciences voting in favour of a cut in national insurance [when] at the same time they are trying to scare everyone that it will mean cuts in funding...
...Marc Filippino Sam Fleming is the FT’s economics editor. Thanks, Sam. Sam Fleming Thank you....
...But he said market expectations that the BoE was going to cut rates during this year were not “unreasonable”, adding: “I’m comfortable with a profile that has cuts in it, but that is not to say when or how...
...“I’m certainly in two minds about the dot plot,” he said. One risk was that individual policymakers in the UK would be pressured to reveal their individual rate expectations, he warned....
...“I’m more concerned that we might be underplaying the downside risks.”...
...“I’m chancellor because I want to change that,” he told the House of Lords economic affairs committee....
...“I need to set people’s expectations about the scale of what I’m doing because people need to know that when a Conservative government cuts taxes we will do so in a responsible and sensible way.”...
...“That’s why I’m a Conservative.” Hunt warned moderate Tory MPs from the One Nation group to temper their expectations of big tax cuts at a private meeting on Monday....
...“In the public sector, I’m telling you, it’s harder — but we are up for the challenge.”...
...Sam Fleming, the FT’s new economics editor. Rafe Uddin, our political reporter, and Katie Martin, our markets editor. I’m gonna give the final word to you, Katie....
...Think of him as an assistant “M”, in Whitehall and in the field, plotting to spirit Belgium’s gold reserves from Nazi-besieged Bordeaux or to seize German cipher machines....
...But I’m afraid we have got to continue to do the work to make it happen.”...
...I’m sceptical of that argument....
...Sam Fleming: Central bankers were largely caught napping by the inflationary upsurge that began three years ago....
...George Wright, the managing director of M Wright and sons, which employs 55 people near Leicester in weaving high-technology fabrics, says it has been a long slog trying to get revenues back to their pre-Covid...
...“The pressure is going to ratchet up over the next few months, which is why I’m sticking to my March rate cut [forecast],” he said....
...“Investors have always worried about government debt and it’s never been a problem, but this time it feels like it’s for real,” said Jim Leaviss, chief investment officer of public fixed income at M&G Investments...
...Marc Filippino Sam Fleming is the FT's economics editor. Thanks, Sam. Sam Fleming Thank you....
...“I’m not going to tell you,” Fleming flatly says. The most I hear is insight into how decisions are made....
...Fleming, a longtime plaintiffs’ litigator in Delaware....
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