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...And it’s certainly logical that the BoE’s books shouldn’t indefinitely accumulate debt....
...Harriett Baldwin, Tory MP and chair of the Treasury committee, said she would have been surprised if the government had made any “big changes”, partly because “we are in the year before an election”....
...Harriett Baldwin, chair of the House of Commons Treasury select committee, was awarded a damehood, as was Tracey Crouch, former sports minister....
...All of these things take time to really come to fruition and, to be honest, I don’t apologise for that.”...
...At a meeting of the Commons Treasury Committee last week, Hunt was asked by Labour chair Harriett Baldwin if the British Isa will need to be established before the sale....
...“We don’t know where this sector will be in five or 10 years.”...
...“I don’t think the fiscal position makes it possible to do that, but I would say this, that we are very committed to do that when it is affordable to do so,” said Hunt....
...Referring to the expected sharp fall in inflation, one ally of Sunak said: “The hard work doesn’t stop. This isn’t a ‘job done’ moment. Getting inflation down remains the most important thing.”...
...Asked by Harriett Baldwin, Tory chair of the Commons Treasury select committee, what percentage chance he would put on achieving that inflation goal, he said: “I don’t have one....
...You don’t send your CEOs to any old thing . . . it’s not your average get-together....
...“There are lots of worthy things to do, but we don’t have leeway for many changes,” said one ally of Hunt, noting the tight fiscal position facing the chancellor....
...“If they’re using electronic marketing rules to say they can’t communicate with customers, there’s an argument, you can’t email that advice, but there’s no reason they couldn’t be sending it in the post,...
...Today’s new ‘Consumer Duty’ gives the regulator the tools they need to take action where that isn’t happening.”...
...“I thought that it was a bit disingenuous to package it all as stuff we could do as a result of Brexit freedoms,” Harriett Baldwin, a senior Tory, said of her party’s 30-point action plan of new financial...
...Harriett Baldwin, Tory chair of the Commons Treasury committee, said MPs would be closely watching the banks’ quarterly results....
...“For a decade you couldn’t really get paid [interest].” Over the past year, that has changed rapidly....
...“It doesn’t look good, does it?” King said. “Depressed growth, not helped by Brexit. Real wage resistance. Core inflation the highest in decades....
...Well, your resources don’t allow [it], so why are you announcing this thing?” he added....
...Bailey told the FT: “People deserve straight and honest answers — even when the message isn’t going to be the most popular. It’s important to me that people understand what we’re doing and why.”...
...But for whatever reason it didn’t work out.”...
...In fact, Harriett’s was buoyed by conversations and commitments that followed the Black Lives Matter movement....
...From September 15, unvaccinated healthcare staff “will no longer be able to work”, said health minister Olivier Véran, and “won’t be paid”....
...Baldwin said: “It doesn’t really pass the smell test to me.”...
...Oh, and there’s one more detail we couldn’t leave out....
...“But what is clear is that he didn’t break the law, break the rules.”...
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