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The Government has recently set out an ambitious vision in its national transport strategy. Ben Plowden and Philipp Rode argue that the UK can draw lessons from how cities in Germany are moving away from cars, and increasing cycling and pub…
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Statistical Notices update the definitions and guidance contained in the Banking Statistics Yellow Folder
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What problem is scenario analysis trying to solve? When putting together our forecast, we need to address a simple but important problem: macroeconomic forecasts are inherently uncertain, yet users often...
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Afternoon all, Even after two thousand years, “bread and circuses” has not gone out of fashion as a political strategy. Having discovered that fixing the price of bread is not so easy, the Chancellor has taken 50p off a happy meal and £4 of…
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The Iran war risks triggering a new energy crisis. Erhan Kilincarslan and Giray Gozgor argue that despite some positive short term interventions by the Government, the long term picture for British households looks bleak. Energy price caps…
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UK long-dated gilts have sold off harder than comparable safe assets this year. The 30-year yield is up 59 basis points since 27 February, while the 10-year is up 69...
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Annual CPI inflation decreased to 2.8 per cent, down from 3.3 per cent in March. Monthly price growth between March and April 2026 was notably strong at 0.75 per cent...
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Local election results, combined with the reorganisation of local government, could have severe consequences for how councils support newcomers to their area. Melissa Weihmayer explains how devolution can be harnessed to strengthen integrat…
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The Iran conflict has created a global energy crisis. Shefali Khanna, John Cui and Weiqi Hua explain how Britain’s off-grid residents, not connected to natural gas, are especially exposed and argue for the need of a more resilient energy sy…
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In this blog, we use our Multi-Recurrent Neural Network(MRN) model to provide forecasts for CPI inflation over the next year. We last used these models to produce a forecast for...
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What was the focus of the work and what did you find? The 2023 White Paper ‘High Stakes: Gambling Reform for the Digital Age’ proposed a series of new gambling...
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The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England set out a shared vision and seek industry views on the future of UK wholesale markets
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The Prudential Regulation Authority has today announced plans to consult on reforming rules around shared operational services for ring-fenced banks.
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This article was initially published on our Substack. Following the news this week, it can feel like political realities in the UK are changing by the minute. For anyone who, like me, is finding the live feeds a little dizzying, this articl…
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Statement from the Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and HM Treasury
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Afternoon all, As thunder rumbles over Westminster, the battle for ideas over how to govern Britain has begun. Yuan Yang MP joined us yesterday, with Sir John Curtice and Tom McTague, to discuss a government reset – along with our own repor…
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The Labour government set raising economic growth as its central target while in power. The new figures published by the Office for National Statistics suggest that the economy is doing a lot better than expected. John Van Reenen makes the…
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Reform’s wins at the local elections have been largely attributed to identity and culture wars. But Grace Lordan argues that it’s economics that explains the results. Over the past few decades, the uneven distribution of productivity across…
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Aside from setting the legislative agenda, the 2026 King’s Speech also signaled what the Government’s overall strategic direction is. Roli Asthana analyses the way that economic security has become entangled in foreign policy for the UK, an…
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Three myths shape debates about government borrowing and growth. First, that the cause of our growth woes is an overbearing, miserly finance ministry. Borrowing too little has just not ranked among Britain’s recent weaknesses. Debt has doub…
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The 2026 local and devolved elections have confirmed a long-term trend in British politics: the two-party era is ending. Sara Hobolt traces the roots of the transformation of the party system to Brexit and argues that 10 years after the ref…
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Tactical voting is nothing new in UK elections. People eschew their Party of preference in order to prevent a Party they dislike from winning. But with the UK Party system fragmenting, tactical voting has become a lot harder. Stephen Fisher…
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Reform UK was the big winner of the 2026 local elections, winning 1,453 council seats in England alone. Edward de Quay and Pallavi Sethi. look back at the councils Reform won in 2025 as a guide to what the 2026 results will mean for climate…
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Economic growth and environmental factors often seem to pull in opposite directions. Why? The simple truth is that we have got used to measuring economic progress using GDP which assigns...
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Morning all, If you’re in the market for some pub-quiz-winning trivia, as the results roll in keep an eye on whether Labour’s defeat in the local elections is even more sizeable than the Conservative’s losses in 2019, when 1,300 seats fell…
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It is now two years since Dr Bernanke published his review into the Bank of England’s forecasting practices. This feels like a good moment to take stock and ask whether...
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The Market Participants Group (MPG) is a senior-level forum for financial market participants to share their views on relevant themes and narratives in financial markets with members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.
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The Bank's Court of Directors acts as a unitary board, setting the organisation's strategy and budget and taking key decisions on resourcing and appointments. Required to meet a minimum seven times per year, it has five executive members fr…
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Exchange of letters between the Governor and the Chancellor
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The Bank of England’s April 2026 Monetary Policy Report placed significant weight on the tightening in UK financial conditions as a reason for holding Bank Rate unchanged. This blog asks...