BoE rate setter Haskel: 'Further increases in interest rates cannot be ruled out'

Inflation remains ‘too high’

Valeria Martinez
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Jonathan Haskel, external member of the Monetary Policy Committee, has said the Bank of England cannot rule out further interest rate hikes as inflation remains too high.

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