It’s been 25 years since Gordon Brown, the new Chancellor (the 1997 election had been the previous week), gave the Bank independent powers to set interest rates. And to mark this, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has published a report on the independent Bank of England, summarised in this FT
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