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BOE: Pill when asked on whether he would vote for a 50bp cut

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  • "The clear thing I think that the committee as a whole would strongly endorse, is the committee has a clear objective or mandate that is achieving the 2% inflation target underlying domestic inflationary pressures in the UK. Those are the things that we influence by setting UK monetary policy, I think they are showing directionally the right movements. We are seeing an easing of inflationary pressures in a direction that's moving us towards the achievement of that 2% inflation target. But we are not there yet, and therefore we need to maintain some restriction in the system to ensure that that progress with this inflation towards target continues. So then.
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  • "The clear thing I think that the committee as a whole would strongly endorse, is the committee has a clear objective or mandate that is achieving the 2% inflation target underlying domestic inflationary pressures in the UK. Those are the things that we influence by setting UK monetary policy, I think they are showing directionally the right movements. We are seeing an easing of inflationary pressures in a direction that's moving us towards the achievement of that 2% inflation target. But we are not there yet, and therefore we need to maintain some restriction in the system to ensure that that progress with this inflation towards target continues. So then.