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Chancellor 'Keeping Careful Watch On Energy Markets' Amidst Ukraine Crisis

UK

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak delivering the Mais Lecture at Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School.

  • Link to livestream: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MnxnkXevBYKO
  • Sunak: "You can expect significant further sanctions [against Russia] to be brought forward”
  • Jack Maidment at The Daily Mail tweets: "Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he spoke to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey this morning about the Ukraine crisis. He said he is keeping a ‘careful watch on energy markets’ but warns there is already 'volatility in wholesale gas prices’.
  • Chris Smyth at The Times "Rishi Sunak takes on those who argue that Covid shows we need a "a new economic model, where government is a permanently bigger presence in the market and our lives", saying he has a "different vision for our economy".

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