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The Elephant in a Room: How Brexit Has Affected Inflation
There isn't one cause of inflation, and if there were we would all have a solution. The government likes to keep emphasising that this is a delayed reaction to the COVID pandemic. But it's quite a difficult argument for Rishi Sunak to push as the Chancellor who actually fronted the furlough scheme in the first place. And then there's the Bank of England's predicament, because remember, this is the flip side of having an independent Bank of England. They'll do stuff that the government doesn't necessarily want to do. It's very much been their call about raising interest rates, although, as we know from the vote with a couple of dissenting voices, even
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